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Modern vs Posteverything - What's the difference?

modern | posteverything |

As adjectives the difference between modern and posteverything

is that modern is pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient while posteverything is after every style, belief, or attitude; thoroughly modern.

As a noun modern

is someone who lives in modern times.

modern

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.
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  • *:But then I had the flintlock by me for protection. ΒΆ There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.}}
  • (lb) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.

    • Synonyms

    * contemporary

    Antonyms

    * dated * old * pre-modern * ancient

    Derived terms

    * modern-day * modernise, modernize verb * modernity noun * postmodern (''see also prepostmodern, postpostmodern) * premodern * early modern

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who lives in modern times.
  • * 1779 , Edward Capell, ?John Collins, Notes and various readings to Shakespeare
    • What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd
  • * 1956 , John Albert Wilson, The Culture of Ancient Egypt (page 144)
    • Even though we moderns can never crawl inside the skin of the ancient and think and feel as he did we must as historians make the attempt.

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    posteverything

    English

    Adjective

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  • After every style, belief, or attitude; thoroughly modern.
  • * 1982 , Cliff Schimmels, How to help your child survive and thrive in public school
    • One of the conveniences of living in the posteverything age is that we have some agency to take care of every phase of human living; more importantly, we have someone to blame for failure in any phase.
  • * 1997 , Judith Butler, Excitable speech: a politics of the performative (page 222)
    • However, formalism is not the flavor of the month in these posteverything times.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=October 6, author=Ben Ratliff, title=Raising Roof and Headstone for Pioneering Pianist, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=Then he went off into his own updated, posteverything style, full of explicit dissonance, repetition and strange dynamics. }}