Definition of postmodern in English:

postmodern

adjective pəʊstˈmɒdnˌpoʊs(t)ˈmɑdərn

1Subsequent to or coming later than that which is modern.
postmodern America
Example sentencesExamples
- It has been claimed that one of the traits of modern or postmodern experience is the dislodging of ideas, images and signs.
- Perhaps a genuine, unflinching intellectual engagement between faith and its modern and postmodern alternatives is possible.
- In the 1960s Slavenska opened a studio in New York that attracted many modern and postmodern dancers.
- If clerking was an integral part of the emerging modern industrial order as the author asserts, then clerks were, by definition, modern not postmodern.
- Nevertheless, both society and church are changing in response to the postmodern critique of modern life.
- What modern, let alone postmodern, parent would answer a child's question with ‘curiosity killed the cat’?
- However, if modern, postmodern, and premodern forms of war overlap with each other, each mode has distinctive features.
- A relational theism must replace the ever-present individualism that haunts modern and postmodern North American culture.
- At the outset of the 21st century, the world finds itself in a transitional phase between the modern nation-state system and postmodern forms of global governance.
- The appeal of such stories may be explained by the need (conscious or not) of modern or postmodern viewers to be reconnected to the roots of drama or of life itself.
- We are living through the juncture of eras, modern to postmodern, which unsettles our certainties and at the same time heightens our longing for certainty.
- During times of transition (from the modern to a postmodern world), adjustments and readjustments are made in our emphasis of our theology.
- We are both modern and postmodern and yet not defined by either.
- When we return to the struggle for power, it is a very modern thing, not postmodern.
- But if we subtract the postmodern from the modern in the United States, a large chunk of the latter remains.
- For some time the idea has been in the air that our situation now is not so much modern as postmodern.
- In the modern / postmodern era, the perduring problem is relativism.
- New York has been a kind of earth mother of modern and postmodern dance, sending her children out into the world.
- Much metaphysical language of the Middle Ages is incomprehensible to modern or postmodern minds.
- The business writer writes that we do a dis-service when we talk of managing change or talk of transitioning from modern to postmodern.
2Relating to or characterized by postmodernism, especially in being self-referential.
（尤用于自指方面）与后现代主义有关的，以后现代主义为特征的
postmodern deconstructionist theories
后现代主义的解构理论。
Example sentencesExamples
- He responds to mass media images and topical subjects without the irony that characterizes much postmodern mainstream art.
- Similarly, the contemporary detective novels of interest to us here are postmodern without being postmodernist.
- He launches a vicious attack in several parts of this book on postmodern literary criticism and feminist theory.
- All this postmodern self-referential ironic navel-gazing is getting a bit bizarre.
- Bess has little patience with postmodern, deconstructionist architects and thinkers.
- Reader-directed irony, that by now classical stylistic device of postmodern literature, pervades the ancient play.
- The postmodern and postmodernism can be linked.
- However, his insights demand a stronger rootedness in postmodern theories of identity and self-reflexive fiction.
- The result has been a number of works of art in the distinctively postmodern genre of historiographical metafiction.
- Perhaps we have simply transvalued impersonality as elusiveness, irony and parodic cultural quotation, qualities especially attractive in the wake of postmodern theory.
- They build on and support changes that have been developing in critical theory during the postmodern era.
- Self-referential and postmodern, or just weird?
- Can it be said that a reconstituted version of ‘landscape’ represents a postmodern artistic genre?
- This is not, we hasten to say, because the film is deliberately cold and self-referential in a postmodern fashion.
- More specifically, it is closer to the postmodern procedural model of deconstruction.
- I listened recently to a cultural studies academic complain that postmodern theory is not taught to first-year creative writing students.
- This voice has been facilitated recently by postmodern movement in literary theory and practice.
- Fiction writers were influenced by the postmodern fabulism and metafiction of North and South America.
- This helps explain why art history leapfrogged over New Criticism to postmodern doubt.
- I, in other words, explain how the holistic and ecological world view can meet postmodern feminist critical theory.

Definition of postmodern in US English:

postmodern

adjectiveˌpōs(t)ˈmädərnˌpoʊs(t)ˈmɑdərn

1Subsequent to or coming later than that which is modern.
the illusionary nature of postmodern life
Example sentencesExamples
- During times of transition (from the modern to a postmodern world), adjustments and readjustments are made in our emphasis of our theology.
- If clerking was an integral part of the emerging modern industrial order as the author asserts, then clerks were, by definition, modern not postmodern.
- In the 1960s Slavenska opened a studio in New York that attracted many modern and postmodern dancers.
- Much metaphysical language of the Middle Ages is incomprehensible to modern or postmodern minds.
- When we return to the struggle for power, it is a very modern thing, not postmodern.
- For some time the idea has been in the air that our situation now is not so much modern as postmodern.
- What modern, let alone postmodern, parent would answer a child's question with ‘curiosity killed the cat’?
- In the modern / postmodern era, the perduring problem is relativism.
- But if we subtract the postmodern from the modern in the United States, a large chunk of the latter remains.
- However, if modern, postmodern, and premodern forms of war overlap with each other, each mode has distinctive features.
- At the outset of the 21st century, the world finds itself in a transitional phase between the modern nation-state system and postmodern forms of global governance.
- We are living through the juncture of eras, modern to postmodern, which unsettles our certainties and at the same time heightens our longing for certainty.
- The business writer writes that we do a dis-service when we talk of managing change or talk of transitioning from modern to postmodern.
- A relational theism must replace the ever-present individualism that haunts modern and postmodern North American culture.
- Perhaps a genuine, unflinching intellectual engagement between faith and its modern and postmodern alternatives is possible.
- The appeal of such stories may be explained by the need (conscious or not) of modern or postmodern viewers to be reconnected to the roots of drama or of life itself.
- We are both modern and postmodern and yet not defined by either.
- New York has been a kind of earth mother of modern and postmodern dance, sending her children out into the world.
- Nevertheless, both society and church are changing in response to the postmodern critique of modern life.
- It has been claimed that one of the traits of modern or postmodern experience is the dislodging of ideas, images and signs.
1. 1.1 Relating to or characterized by postmodernism, especially in being self-referential.
  （尤用于自指方面）与后现代主义有关的，以后现代主义为特征的
  the postmodern discipline of art history
  Example sentencesExamples
  Can it be said that a reconstituted version of ‘landscape’ represents a postmodern artistic genre?
  He launches a vicious attack in several parts of this book on postmodern literary criticism and feminist theory.
  They build on and support changes that have been developing in critical theory during the postmodern era.
  Similarly, the contemporary detective novels of interest to us here are postmodern without being postmodernist.
  This is not, we hasten to say, because the film is deliberately cold and self-referential in a postmodern fashion.
  He responds to mass media images and topical subjects without the irony that characterizes much postmodern mainstream art.
  The postmodern and postmodernism can be linked.
  However, his insights demand a stronger rootedness in postmodern theories of identity and self-reflexive fiction.
  Fiction writers were influenced by the postmodern fabulism and metafiction of North and South America.
  This helps explain why art history leapfrogged over New Criticism to postmodern doubt.
  Perhaps we have simply transvalued impersonality as elusiveness, irony and parodic cultural quotation, qualities especially attractive in the wake of postmodern theory.
  More specifically, it is closer to the postmodern procedural model of deconstruction.
  Self-referential and postmodern, or just weird?
  This voice has been facilitated recently by postmodern movement in literary theory and practice.
  Bess has little patience with postmodern, deconstructionist architects and thinkers.
  All this postmodern self-referential ironic navel-gazing is getting a bit bizarre.
  The result has been a number of works of art in the distinctively postmodern genre of historiographical metafiction.
  I listened recently to a cultural studies academic complain that postmodern theory is not taught to first-year creative writing students.
  I, in other words, explain how the holistic and ecological world view can meet postmodern feminist critical theory.
  Reader-directed irony, that by now classical stylistic device of postmodern literature, pervades the ancient play.

词汇	postmodern
释义	Definition of postmodern in English: postmodern adjective pəʊstˈmɒdnˌpoʊs(t)ˈmɑdərn 1Subsequent to or coming later than that which is modern. postmodern America Example sentencesExamples It has been claimed that one of the traits of modern or postmodern experience is the dislodging of ideas, images and signs. Perhaps a genuine, unflinching intellectual engagement between faith and its modern and postmodern alternatives is possible. In the 1960s Slavenska opened a studio in New York that attracted many modern and postmodern dancers. If clerking was an integral part of the emerging modern industrial order as the author asserts, then clerks were, by definition, modern not postmodern. Nevertheless, both society and church are changing in response to the postmodern critique of modern life. What modern, let alone postmodern, parent would answer a child's question with ‘curiosity killed the cat’? However, if modern, postmodern, and premodern forms of war overlap with each other, each mode has distinctive features. A relational theism must replace the ever-present individualism that haunts modern and postmodern North American culture. At the outset of the 21st century, the world finds itself in a transitional phase between the modern nation-state system and postmodern forms of global governance. The appeal of such stories may be explained by the need (conscious or not) of modern or postmodern viewers to be reconnected to the roots of drama or of life itself. We are living through the juncture of eras, modern to postmodern, which unsettles our certainties and at the same time heightens our longing for certainty. During times of transition (from the modern to a postmodern world), adjustments and readjustments are made in our emphasis of our theology. We are both modern and postmodern and yet not defined by either. When we return to the struggle for power, it is a very modern thing, not postmodern. But if we subtract the postmodern from the modern in the United States, a large chunk of the latter remains. For some time the idea has been in the air that our situation now is not so much modern as postmodern. In the modern / postmodern era, the perduring problem is relativism. New York has been a kind of earth mother of modern and postmodern dance, sending her children out into the world. Much metaphysical language of the Middle Ages is incomprehensible to modern or postmodern minds. The business writer writes that we do a dis-service when we talk of managing change or talk of transitioning from modern to postmodern. 2Relating to or characterized by postmodernism, especially in being self-referential. （尤用于自指方面）与后现代主义有关的，以后现代主义为特征的 postmodern deconstructionist theories 后现代主义的解构理论。 Example sentencesExamples He responds to mass media images and topical subjects without the irony that characterizes much postmodern mainstream art. Similarly, the contemporary detective novels of interest to us here are postmodern without being postmodernist. He launches a vicious attack in several parts of this book on postmodern literary criticism and feminist theory. All this postmodern self-referential ironic navel-gazing is getting a bit bizarre. Bess has little patience with postmodern, deconstructionist architects and thinkers. Reader-directed irony, that by now classical stylistic device of postmodern literature, pervades the ancient play. The postmodern and postmodernism can be linked. However, his insights demand a stronger rootedness in postmodern theories of identity and self-reflexive fiction. The result has been a number of works of art in the distinctively postmodern genre of historiographical metafiction. Perhaps we have simply transvalued impersonality as elusiveness, irony and parodic cultural quotation, qualities especially attractive in the wake of postmodern theory. They build on and support changes that have been developing in critical theory during the postmodern era. Self-referential and postmodern, or just weird? Can it be said that a reconstituted version of ‘landscape’ represents a postmodern artistic genre? This is not, we hasten to say, because the film is deliberately cold and self-referential in a postmodern fashion. More specifically, it is closer to the postmodern procedural model of deconstruction. I listened recently to a cultural studies academic complain that postmodern theory is not taught to first-year creative writing students. This voice has been facilitated recently by postmodern movement in literary theory and practice. Fiction writers were influenced by the postmodern fabulism and metafiction of North and South America. This helps explain why art history leapfrogged over New Criticism to postmodern doubt. I, in other words, explain how the holistic and ecological world view can meet postmodern feminist critical theory. Definition of postmodern in US English: postmodern adjectiveˌpōs(t)ˈmädərnˌpoʊs(t)ˈmɑdərn 1Subsequent to or coming later than that which is modern. the illusionary nature of postmodern life Example sentencesExamples During times of transition (from the modern to a postmodern world), adjustments and readjustments are made in our emphasis of our theology. If clerking was an integral part of the emerging modern industrial order as the author asserts, then clerks were, by definition, modern not postmodern. In the 1960s Slavenska opened a studio in New York that attracted many modern and postmodern dancers. Much metaphysical language of the Middle Ages is incomprehensible to modern or postmodern minds. When we return to the struggle for power, it is a very modern thing, not postmodern. For some time the idea has been in the air that our situation now is not so much modern as postmodern. What modern, let alone postmodern, parent would answer a child's question with ‘curiosity killed the cat’? In the modern / postmodern era, the perduring problem is relativism. But if we subtract the postmodern from the modern in the United States, a large chunk of the latter remains. However, if modern, postmodern, and premodern forms of war overlap with each other, each mode has distinctive features. At the outset of the 21st century, the world finds itself in a transitional phase between the modern nation-state system and postmodern forms of global governance. We are living through the juncture of eras, modern to postmodern, which unsettles our certainties and at the same time heightens our longing for certainty. The business writer writes that we do a dis-service when we talk of managing change or talk of transitioning from modern to postmodern. A relational theism must replace the ever-present individualism that haunts modern and postmodern North American culture. Perhaps a genuine, unflinching intellectual engagement between faith and its modern and postmodern alternatives is possible. The appeal of such stories may be explained by the need (conscious or not) of modern or postmodern viewers to be reconnected to the roots of drama or of life itself. We are both modern and postmodern and yet not defined by either. New York has been a kind of earth mother of modern and postmodern dance, sending her children out into the world. Nevertheless, both society and church are changing in response to the postmodern critique of modern life. It has been claimed that one of the traits of modern or postmodern experience is the dislodging of ideas, images and signs. 1.1 Relating to or characterized by postmodernism, especially in being self-referential. （尤用于自指方面）与后现代主义有关的，以后现代主义为特征的 the postmodern discipline of art history Example sentencesExamples Can it be said that a reconstituted version of ‘landscape’ represents a postmodern artistic genre? He launches a vicious attack in several parts of this book on postmodern literary criticism and feminist theory. They build on and support changes that have been developing in critical theory during the postmodern era. Similarly, the contemporary detective novels of interest to us here are postmodern without being postmodernist. This is not, we hasten to say, because the film is deliberately cold and self-referential in a postmodern fashion. He responds to mass media images and topical subjects without the irony that characterizes much postmodern mainstream art. The postmodern and postmodernism can be linked. However, his insights demand a stronger rootedness in postmodern theories of identity and self-reflexive fiction. Fiction writers were influenced by the postmodern fabulism and metafiction of North and South America. This helps explain why art history leapfrogged over New Criticism to postmodern doubt. Perhaps we have simply transvalued impersonality as elusiveness, irony and parodic cultural quotation, qualities especially attractive in the wake of postmodern theory. More specifically, it is closer to the postmodern procedural model of deconstruction. Self-referential and postmodern, or just weird? This voice has been facilitated recently by postmodern movement in literary theory and practice. Bess has little patience with postmodern, deconstructionist architects and thinkers. All this postmodern self-referential ironic navel-gazing is getting a bit bizarre. The result has been a number of works of art in the distinctively postmodern genre of historiographical metafiction. I listened recently to a cultural studies academic complain that postmodern theory is not taught to first-year creative writing students. I, in other words, explain how the holistic and ecological world view can meet postmodern feminist critical theory. Reader-directed irony, that by now classical stylistic device of postmodern literature, pervades the ancient play.
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