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hippiedom

American  
[hip-ee-duhm] / ˈhɪp i dəm /

noun

  1. the lifestyle and world of hippies, especially in the 1960s.


Etymology

Origin of hippiedom

An Americanism dating back to 1965–70; hippie + -dom


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It put them in a hotbed of hippiedom right as the 1960s got rolling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

I graduated from the High School of Performing Arts in 1970, which was the high point of hippiedom.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 29, 2025

Half an hour after visiting Wangechi Mutu’s exhibition at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco recently, I found myself driving down Haight Street, the headquarters of West Coast hippiedom.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2021

Few of the techies who have absorbed these hippie ideals would identify with their indirect origins in hippiedom.

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2019

That closing seems to be a coda of sorts to the heady days of hippiedom in Brooklyn’s more raffish quarters and in much of New York.

From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2013

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