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postmodernism

 noun
     
Related topics: Arts
post‧mod‧ern‧is‧m [uncountable]
ARP 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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