Postmillennial
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A member of the generation following the millennials; a Gen-Zer.
"The Founders, the Plurals, iGen or ReGen – what should we call the post-millennials?"
- 1 Pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place after the millennium.
"And just as for postmillennial Christians, man, led by God's prophets and saints, will establish a Kingdom of God on Earth (for premillennials, Jesus will have many human assistants in setting up such a kingdom), so, for Marx and other schools of communists, mankind, led by a vanguard of secular saints, will establish a secularized Kingdom of Heaven on earth."
- 2 Pertaining to the period following the year 1000 or (now more usually) following the year 2000.
"[…]“Sweet Nothing” is a quintessential example of both postmillennial EDM-pop music and neoliberal ideology because it shows how the two are intertwined."
- 3 Following the millennial generation; relating to Generation Z.
"“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.”"
- 1 of or relating to the period following the millennium wordnet
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More examples"And just as for postmillennial Christians, man, led by God's prophets and saints, will establish a Kingdom of God on Earth (for premillennials, Jesus will have many human assistants in setting up such a kingdom), so, for Marx and other schools of communists, mankind, led by a vanguard of secular saints, will establish a secularized Kingdom of Heaven on earth."
Etymology
From post- + millennial.
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