chatterati

British  

/ ˌtʃætəˈrɑtiː /

plural noun

1. informal another word for chattering classes

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Etymology

Origin of chatterati

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.

From Washington Post

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.

From New York Times

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.

From Slate

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.

From The Guardian

Still, Sondheim writes that the workshop “was not the mess the chatterati made it out to be.”

From Washington Post