Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Postmodern.
- adjective Postmodernist.
- noun A postmodernist.
- noun Postmodernism.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- abbreviation
post-modern
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word pomo.
Examples
-
Tomatoes were originally known as love apples in England, possibly based on a mistranslation of the Italian name pomo d'oro golden apple as pomo d'amore.
At My Table 2007
-
Tomatoes were originally known as love apples in England, possibly based on a mistranslation of the Italian name pomo d'oro golden apple as pomo d'amore.
Archive 2007-01-01 2007
-
Literary critics now acknowledge that postmodernism never went away, but to distract us from its advanced age they cry up a new "pomo" wunderkind every year or two.
-
Literary critics now acknowledge that postmodernism never went away, but to distract us from its advanced age they cry up a new "pomo" wunderkind every year or two.
-
Looks like a kind of pomo "I was critiquing authenticity and laughing at you all for years" is gonna be his best move,
-
But the video is hardly the vile, smutty rag Camp is making it out to be, and Tripp is hardly a "pomo" as he is falsely accused on his blog.
Hip and Thigh 2008
-
But the video is hardly the vile, smutty rag Camp is making it out to be, and Tripp is hardly a "pomo" as he is falsely accused on his blog.
Hip and Thigh 2008
-
Looks like a kind of pomo "I was critiquing authenticity and laughing at you all for years" is gonna be his best move, but I can't wait to see if he tries that, a "fuck you all i have no comment" or a standard contrite apology (which honestly seems unworkable here, given the years of deception).
-
But a literal instability between different versions of the "same" text is a bit too pomo even for me.
-
Transsexuality had been * so* medicalised (not to mention slagged off by rad-fems) that the whole pomo-influenced transgender theory thing was kinda necessary and gathered a number of critical insights – even if it was perhaps overly utopian and celebratory of transgression for its own sake.
john commented on the word pomo
Short for postmodernism.
May 24, 2009