Usually means: Skepticism, irony, rejecting grand narratives.
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  1. postmodernism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. postmodernism: Merriam-Webster
  3. postmodernism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. postmodernism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. postmodernism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Postmodernism, postmodernism: Wordnik
  7. postmodernism: Wiktionary
  8. postmodernism: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. postmodernism: Dictionary.com
  10. Postmodernism (disambiguation), Postmodernism (international relations), Postmodernism (music), Postmodernism (political science), Postmodernism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  12. postmodernism: FreeDictionary.org
  13. postmodernism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. postmodernism: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Postmodernism, postmodernism: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. postmodernism: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  3. The Ism Book (No longer online)

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  1. postmodernism: Encyclopedia

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Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. postmodernism: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)
  3. postmodernism: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

(Note: See postmodern as well.)

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noun:  Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.
noun:  An attitude of skepticism or irony toward modernist ideologies, often questioning the assumptions of Enlightenment rationality and rejecting the idea of objective truth.

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