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magazinism en · NOUN

Etymology

From magazine + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The practice of writing for magazines, or in a style suited to magazines.
    • It is no wonder that the television industry has shied away from the dangers of discovery and committed itself to the ideology of demographic magazinism. 2010, David Marc, Demographic Vistas: Television in American Culture, page 135:
    • "I have no income save what my pen brings me in the magazine and newspaper field." (Note that field is not plural; here he is thinking of both yellow journalism and yellow magazinism). 2021, Jay Williams, Author Under Sail: The Imagination of Jack London, 1902-1907:
    • The style of Brougham and Jeffrey and Sydney Smith was moulded by their oratorical pursuits; and it gave the cue to magazinism through the earlier part of the period. 1894, John Macmillan Brown, Manual of English Literature: Era of Expansion, 1750-1850, page 94: