| 单词 | postmodernism |
| 释义 | postmodernism (poʊstmɒdərnɪzəm) uncountable noun Postmodernism is a late twentieth century approach in art, architecture, and literature that typically mixes styles, ideas, and references to modern society, often in an ironic way. postmodernism in American English (poustˈmɑdərˌnɪzəm) noun (sometimes cap) any of a number of trends or movements in the arts and literature developing in the 1970s in reaction to orrejection of the dogma, principles, or practices of established modernism, esp. a movement in architecture and the decorative arts running counter to the practice and influence of the International Style and encouraging the use of elements from historical vernacular styles and often playful illusion, decoration, and complexity Derived forms postmodernist noun or adjective Word origin [1970–75; post- + modernism]This word is first recorded in the period 1970–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: consciousness-raising, good old boy, relational database, salsa, urban legendpost- is a prefix, meaning “behind,” “after,” “later,” “subsequent to,” “posterior to,”occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (postscript), but now used freely in the formation of compound words (post-Elizabethan; postfix; postgraduate; postorbital)Examples of 'postmodernism' in a sentence |
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