Meanings
plural postmodernities
- countableuncountableThe state or condition of being postmodern.
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While we neither refute nor endorse this contention of arrival at a more inclusive postmodernity, our analyses seek to explore the strange agencies that neoliberalism has set into motion under the banner of ablenationalism: first in a discussion of a backlash against the homogenizing implications of universal disability access design in cities and national monuments addressed by the contemporary European art theorist Paul Virilio, and in the complaints about paving over U.S. national parklands by American desert environmentalist Edward Abbey.
2015, David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder, The Biopolitics of Disability, page 21 - countableuncountableSomething postmodern.
Origin
Translations
French postmodernité
- postmodernitéthe state or condition of being postmodern
Irish iarnua-aoiseacht
- iarnua-aoiseachtthe state or condition of being postmodern
Italian postmodernità
- postmodernitàthe state or condition of being postmodern
Polish ponowoczesność, ponowoczesność
- ponowoczesnośćthe state or condition of being postmodern
- ponowoczesnośćsomething postmodern
Spanish posmodernidad
- posmodernidadthe state or condition of being postmodern
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postmodernity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postmodernity
“postmodernity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postmodernity. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postmodernity,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postmodernity.
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