Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

postcinematic

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: postcin-e-mat-ic
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

After the invention of cinema.

adj

After the decline of cinema.

Example Sentences

"For just as we seem to be on the brink of a postcinematic era, we are also, as David Bordwell and Noël Carroll tell us, already in the age of Post-Theory."

Etymology

From post- + cinematic.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: post

Questions

What does postcinematic mean?: After the invention of cinema.
Where does postcinematic come from?: From post- + cinematic.

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