hipsterism en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English hipster Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English hipsterism From hipster + -ism.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) hipness
Wasik's motivation, he claimed in 2006 and later, was to spoof the hipsterism and scenesterism that he found rampant in New York City by creating an artificial and allegedly hip new trend.
2016, Mark Mattern, Anarchism and Art: Democracy in the Cracks and on the Margins, →ISBN:Neighborhood Committees and Social Organizations take cops to dinner with free discussions offering discriminating insights into hipsterism, black militancy, and drug culture.
1968, “Take a Cop to Dinner”, in The Digger Papers:
- (countable, uncountable) Something typical of a hipster.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| hipsterisms | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (1)
es hipsterismo (Translations)