postmillennial

• post-millennial

From post- +‎ millennial.

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, 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:

     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.

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, →ISSN:

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