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hipsterism

American  
[hip-stuh-riz-uhm] / ˈhɪp stəˌrɪz əm /

noun

  1. the style of life of a hipster.


Etymology

Origin of hipsterism

An Americanism dating back to 1955–60; hipster 1 + -ism

Example Sentences

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“College kids were reading Marvel comics and both loving the mild psychedelia of the drawings and also appreciating the slight hipsterism of the banter,” Howe says.

From Slate Mar. 16, 2021

Brooklyn, star of the lovely film “Brooklyn,” continued to dominate art, literature, style, music, conversation and postmodern outer-borough self-referential hipsterism.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 24, 2015

These days, Stanhope and longtime girlfriend Amy "Bingo" Bingaman hide out in tiny Bisbee, a town of 5,500 in Arizona's Mule Mountains, far from the traffic and hipsterism of L.A. and New York.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 16, 2014

But something that worries me about modern hipsterism is how comfortable people seem to be about its commodification.

From The Guardian Sep. 20, 2014

Shareen Mitchell began her retail career in Los Angeles, with both a robust eye for hipsterism and a pragmatic sense of thrift.

From New York Times Feb. 16, 2011

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