postindustrial

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pós

Proto-Indo-European *-ti

Proto-Indo-European *pósti

Proto-Italic *posti

Old Latin poste

Latin post

English post-

English industrial

English postindustrial

From post- + industrial.

Adjective

postindustrial (comparative more postindustrial, superlative most postindustrial)

1. Describing the economy of a nation in which manufacturing industry becomes less important and the service and information industries become more important.

   Antonym: preindustrial

   Coordinate terms: industrialized, deindustrialized, reindustrialized

   • 2000, Stuart S Nagel, Handbook of global political policy:

     One hypermodern trend entails technological development, producing a postindustrial, information-infused society. This also leads to globalization...

2. (music) Of or relating to a genre of music derived from industrial music but with electronic and rock influences.

Derived terms

• postindustrially

Related terms

• deindustrialization
• postindustrialization
• reindustrialization

Translations

describing a type of economy

• Finnish: jälkiteollinen (fi)
• Georgian: პოსტინდუსტრიალური (ṗosṭindusṭrialuri)
• Italian: postindustriale (it)
• Polish: postindustrialny (pl)
• Portuguese: pós-industrial
• Russian: постиндустриа́льный (ru) (postindustriálʹnyj)
• Slovak: postindustriálny
• Spanish: postindustrial, posindustrial
• Swedish: postindustriell (sv)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /postindusˈtɾjal/ [pos.t̪ĩn̪.d̪usˈt̪ɾjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: pos‧tin‧dus‧trial

Adjective

postindustrial m or f (masculine and feminine plural postindustriales)

1. alternative form of posindustrial

Further reading

• “posindustrial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025