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posteverything

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Etymology

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From post- +‎ everything.

Adjective

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posteverything (not comparable)

  1. 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.
    • 2009 October 6, Ben Ratliff, “Raising Roof and Headstone for Pioneering Pianist”, in New York Times[1]:
      Then he went off into his own updated, posteverything style, full of explicit dissonance, repetition and strange dynamics.