Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

postirony

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: po-stirony
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of post-irony.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"In doing this in art, architecture, literature, and some philosophical outputs it tends to adopt styles that embody these approaches — pastiche, improvisation, irony, and postirony collage and hybridity among them."
"Postirony is only one term in use for the group of writers I investigate in this book, the others being post-postmodernism and new sincerity. However, not one of these labels seems applicable without causing problems."

Etymology

From post- + irony.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: post

Usage

Inflected Forms

postironies (plural)

Questions

What does postirony mean?: Alternative form of post-irony.
Where does postirony come from?: From post- + irony.

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