chatterati

/ ˌtʃætəˈrɑtiː /

plural noun

1. informal,  another word for chattering classes

Word History and Origins

Origin of chatterati¹

C20: from _chatter + -ati as in _literati

Example Sentences

The reason for that obsession is, of course, the cultural dominance of HBO’s “Succession,” at least among the chatterati.

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Yet critics, including myself, now feel free to weigh in anyway, and neither long distance nor review embargoes stop the busy fingers of the chatterati.

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Morris is correct that the current hierarchies of celebrity depend somewhat on moral valuations, elevating certain figures, such as Beyoncé, beyond criticism—at least among the professional chatterati.

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They even dared to do what few in the left-leaning chatterati were willing to do: hold the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates up to scrutiny.

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While the soccer chatterati in at least 32 other countries is discussing the upcoming World Cup, the talk in the US is about a vote this Saturday to elect a new president of US soccer’s governing body.

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