postmodernisme
French, noun/pɔst.mɔ.dɛʁ.nism/
postmodernisme is spelled P-O-S-T-M-O-D-E-R-N-I-S-M-E (14 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 78,246th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Postmodernisme is a French masculine noun meaning “postmodernism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mouvement artistique, lancé et théorisé en 1977 par Charles Jencks, qui engage une rupture ironique avec les…”.
What does postmodernisme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepostmodernism
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mouvement artistique, lancé et théorisé en 1977 par Charles Jencks, qui engage une rupture ironique avec les conventions anhistoriques du modernisme en architecture et en urbanisme.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of postmodernisme
- postmodernismes plural
- post-modernisme
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce postmodernisme?
- /pɔst.mɔ.dɛʁ.nism/
- /pɔst.mɔ.dɛʁ.nizm/
- \pɔst.mɔ.dɛʁ.nism\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to postmodernisme
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is postmodernisme in French?
postmodernisme appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).