postcountercultural

English

Etymology

From post- +‎ countercultural.

Adjective

postcountercultural (not comparable)

1. Occurring after a countercultural period (especially referring to the counterculture of the 1960s).
   • 1982 Winter, “Preface to the Issue, "Religion"”, in Daedalus, volume 111, number 1, Cambridge, M.A.: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 232:

     The continued growth of postcountercultural values is particularly surprising in the face of the conspicuous resurgence of moral traditionalism associated with the "moral majority," the growth of evangelical Christianity, and the triumph of Ronald Reagan and political conservatism.

   • 2013 September 5, Geoff Pevere, “An American Family: 40 years later, and there’s still nothing quite like this landmark doc”, in The Globe and Mail‎^[1], Toronto, ON: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2014-04-19:

     For many, it was one door too far opened for the sake of public decency, and the blowback that struck the Louds, PBS, the filmmakers and perceived liberal postcountercultural moral permissiveness was devastating.

   • 2021 April 30, John McWhorter, “How the N-Word Became Unsayable”, in The New York Times‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-04-04:

     For Americans of this postcountercultural cohort, the pox on matters of God and the body seemed quaint beyond discussion, while a pox on matters of slurring groups seemed urgent beyond discussion.