Etymology

postmodernism

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Today it means: Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement. Full definition →

English modernism ← Latin post ← Old Latin poste
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
  3. Proto-Italic*posti
  4. Old Latinposte
  5. Latinpost
  6. Englishpost-
  7. Englishmodern
  8. Englishmodernism
  9. English todaypostmodernism

From post- + modernism.

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