Pomophobe
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pomophobe is a noun meaning One who fears, dislikes, or hates postmodernism and/or postmodernists.
Meaning
One who fears, dislikes, or hates postmodernism and/or postmodernists.
Example Sentences
Pomophobes who teach find that they are surrounded by less-than-reverent students who want to do the latest thing, namely the despised you-know-what.
Of course, forms of cultural production that combine the "real" and the "fictional" are hardly anything new (an observation that does not render the concept of the postmodern "silly," as some pomophobes would have it).
It is the fear of having, not only intellectual but also moral, edifices shattered, with all the chaos that would then become apparent, that lies at the root of 'pomophobia', or fear of postmodernism; and the pomophobes do have a point.
Word Forms
- pomophobes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pomophobia, phobian, pogonophobe, phobist, neophobe, antimodernist.
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