postmillennial
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.04 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place after the millennium.
adj
Following the millennial generation; relating to Generation Z.
noun
A member of the generation following the millennials; a Gen-Zer.
Example Sentences
- "And just as for postmillennial Christians, man, led by God's prophets and saints, will establish a Kingdom of God on Earth (for premillennials, Jesus will have many human assistants in setting up such a kingdom), so, for Marx and other schools of communists, mankind, led by a vanguard of secular saints, will establish a secularized Kingdom of Heaven on earth."
- "[…]“Sweet Nothing” is a quintessential example of both postmillennial EDM-pop music and neoliberal ideology because it shows how the two are intertwined."
- "In 2001, the US author Marc Prensky invented the term “digital native” to describe the post-millennial generation who would grow up in an online world."
- "“I want to get into the heads of people younger than me, to be postmillennial,” she says. “I look at different Instagram influencers, at the music and the music scene, to try to understand it all.”"
- "The Founders, the Plurals, iGen or ReGen – what should we call the post-millennials?"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pós Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *pósti Proto-Italic *posti Old Latin poste Latin post English post- English millennial English postmillennial From post- + millennial.
Inflected Forms
more postmillennial (comparative)
most postmillennial (superlative)
post-millennial (alternative)
postmillennials (plural)