petromodernity
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Those aspects of modern times that are dependent on and shaped by the availability of oil.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "While Oil, its extraction, and the global petroculture and its role in transforming the planet's climate undoubtedly play a crucial role in the Antropocene imaginary — to the extent that petrofiction has been construed not just as a genre but as a periodizing gesture of "petromodernity" — it would hamper both the imagination and the root of petrofiction to restrict the range of this term to the encounter with fossil fuels within a carbon imaginary."
- "After all, they embody petromodernity in almost every way, from their masculinist stereotyping to their fossil-fueled metabolism. Trucks would seem to be a survival of petromodernity rather than a signal of its end."
- "But I like the honesty of literary critic Stephanie LeMenager, who concludes that we love oil petromodernity – and the world it brings us – theater, movies, books, plastics, air conditioning, central heat, air travel."