postmillennial

English

Alternative forms

• post-millennial

Etymology

From post- +‎ millennial.

Adjective

postmillennial (comparative more postmillennial, superlative most postmillennial)

1. (Christianity) Pertaining to the belief that the Second Coming will take place after the millennium. [from 19th c.]
   • 1990, Murray N. Rothbard, Karl Marx: Communist as Religious Eschatologist, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 123–179:

     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. [from 20th c.]

   Antonym: premillennial

   • 2015, Robin James, Resilience & Melancholy‎^[1], Zero Books, →ISBN:

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

   • 2016 June 18, Rosie Ifould, “‘I worried people would forget about me’: can teenagers survive without social media?”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     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.

3. Following the millennial generation; relating to Generation Z.
   • 2020 February 7, Melanie Gerlis, quoting Avery Singer, “Avery Singer: the artist breathing fresh life into painting”, in Financial Times‎^[3]:

     “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.”

Noun

postmillennial (plural postmillennials)

1. A member of the generation following the millennials; a Gen-Zer.
   • 2015 December 2, “The Founders, the Plurals, iGen or ReGen – what should we call the post-millennials?”, in The Guardian‎^[4], →ISSN:

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