n. Any style in art, architecture, literature, philosophy, etc., that reacts against an earlier modernist movement.
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n. genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism
Word Usage
"According to Charles Jencks, the man who applied the term "postmodernism" or Post-Modernism, as he likes to write it to architecture, it never went away, and he has published a book, The Story of Post-Modernism, to prove it."