post-modern

A form of postmodern — Relating to what follows the modern era.

Meanings

adjectivepost-modern (comparative more post-modern, superlative most post-modern)

comparative more post-modern · superlative most post-modern

  1. alternativeAlternative form of postmodern.

    He turns off all of the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading statistics about his own death even as it's happening to him. Very post-modern. Time to get immersed in Reality, like all the people around him.

    1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 285
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