postcolonialism

noun

postcolonialism is spelled P-O-S-T-C-O-L-O-N-I-A-L-I-S-M: 15 letters. It appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, postcolonialism means “An era or attitude relating to the period after the settlement of one country by another, or very broadly, after the 1960s, when many colonised…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of postcolonialism is postcolonialisms.

How many letters and syllables are in postcolonialism?

Letters	15: P-O-S-T-C-O-L-O-N-I-A-L-I-S-M
In writing	about once in every 16 million words; the 121,279th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched	none measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is postcolonialism?

Postcolonialism appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 121,279th most frequent word form in the list.

postcolonialism0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of postcolonialism

postcolonialisms plural
post-colonialism

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does postcolonialism mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

1
An era or attitude relating to the period after the settlement of one country by another, or very broadly, after the 1960s, when many colonised countries gained their independence.
2
An academic discipline that attempts to analyse, explain, and respond to the cultural legacies of colonialism and imperialism.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).