Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

new sincerity

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.34 in modern English

Syllables: new s-in-cer-i-ty
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A partial return to modernism, going against prevailing modes of postmodernist irony or cynicism.

Example Sentences

"[Christy Wampole] notes that the New Sincerity has been around since the 1980s, and is a response to "postmodern cynicism, detachment and meta-referentiality." She's right about that, and the examples she cites—David Foster Wallace, Wes Anderson, and Cat Power—are right too. But the New Sincerity failed, she tells us."

Etymology

Popularized in the 1990s by American author David Foster Wallace.

Inflected Forms

the New Sincerity (canonical)

Frequently Paired Words

metamodernism

Questions

What does new sincerity mean?: A partial return to modernism, going against prevailing modes of postmodernist irony or cynicism.
Where does new sincerity come from?: Popularized in the 1990s by American author David Foster Wallace.

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