post‧mod‧ern‧is‧m /ˌpəʊstˈmɒdən-ɪzəm $ ˌpoʊstˈmɑːdərn-/ noun [uncountable]
a style of building, painting, writing etc, developed in the late 20th century, that uses a mixture of old and new styles as a reaction against modernism
—postmodernist adjective:
postmodernist fiction
—postmodernist noun [countable]

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