# postmodernism

> English word · Noun · IPA /pəʊstˈmɑdɚnɪzəm/ · frequency rank #41,315

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

## Etymology
From post- + modernism.

## Common misspellings (21)
`opstmodernism`, `posmtodernism`, `posstmodernism`, `postmdoernism`, `postmmodernism`, `postmoddernism`, `postmodenrism`, `postmoderinsm`, `postmodernims`, `postmodernismm`, `postmodernissm`, `postmodernnism`, `postmodernsim`, `postmoderrnism`, `postmodrenism`, `postmoedrnism`, `postomdernism`, `posttmodernism`, `potsmodernism`, `ppostmodernism`, `psotmodernism`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/postmodernism