postcountercultural
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Occurring after a countercultural period (especially referring to the counterculture of the 1960s).
Example Sentences
- "The continued growth of postcountercultural values is particularly surprising in the face of the conspicuous resurgence of moral traditionalism associated with the "moral majority," the growth of evangelical Christianity, and the triumph of Ronald Reagan and political conservatism."
- "For many, it was one door too far opened for the sake of public decency, and the blowback that struck the Louds, PBS, the filmmakers and perceived liberal postcountercultural moral permissiveness was devastating."
- "For Americans of this postcountercultural cohort, the pox on matters of God and the body seemed quaint beyond discussion, while a pox on matters of slurring groups seemed urgent beyond discussion."
Etymology
From post- + countercultural.