postmodernity

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noun

The state or condition of being postmodern.

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Meanings

nounpostmodernity (countable and uncountable, plural postmodernities)

plural postmodernities

  1. countableuncountableThe state or condition of being postmodern.
    1 more example

    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
  2. 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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APA

postmodernity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postmodernity

MLA

“postmodernity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postmodernity. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postmodernity,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postmodernity.

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