Metamodernism is a cultural and philosophical movement that emerged in early 21st century, reacting to the perceived limitation of both modernism and postmodernism.

While modernism is often associated with a belief in progress, grand narratives, and objective truths, and postmodernism with skepticism, irony, and the rejection of these narratives, metamodernism seeks to move beyond both.

Metamodernism oscillates between modernist idealism and postmodernist cynicism, embracing a mix of sincerity and irony, hope and doubt, and engagement and detachment.

For example, when metamodernists pray, they do so with understanding that it might be a coping mechanism, fully aware that expecting supernatural intervention might not be entirely rational.

Yet, they continue to pray, embracing the act with a mix of sincerity and irony.

They acknowledge the comfort it brings, even when recognizing the improbability of divine intervention, reflecting the metamodernist's ability to hold conflicting beliefs and emotions in balance.