poststructuralism
noun
poststructuralism is a noun meaning “An extension of structuralism influenced by deconstructionism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-O-S-T-S-T-R-U-C-T-U-R-A-L-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 26 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of poststructuralism is poststructuralisms.
What does poststructuralism mean?
noun
- 1
An extension of structuralism influenced by deconstructionism
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of poststructuralism
- poststructuralisms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is poststructuralism?
Poststructuralism appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Poststructuralism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense extension of structuralism:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | postestructuralismo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does poststructuralism come from?
From post- + structuralism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).