Postmillennial

Quick meaning: Postmillennial is an adjective meaning (Christianity) Pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place after the millennium.

Meaning

(Christianity) Pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place after the millennium.

More Meanings

1. Pertaining to the period following the year 1000 or (now more usually) following the year 2000.
2. Following the millennial generation; relating to Generation Z.
3. A member of the generation following the millennials; a Gen-Zer.

Example Sentences

The Founders, the Plurals, iGen or ReGen – what should we call the post-millennials?

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.

[…]“Sweet Nothing” is a quintessential example of both postmillennial EDM-pop music and neoliberal ideology because it shows how the two are intertwined.

“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.”

Word Forms

• post-millennial
• postmillennials

Antonyms for postmillennial

Common opposites include premillennial.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include premillennial, post-millennial, pre-millennial, antemillennial, postmillennium, premillenarian.

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