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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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Years ago when I was first starting out, I wrote this piece about hipsterism for Vice.

From Slate • Jun. 23, 2020

Photograph: Jim McCrary/Redferns It could be tempting to see the revival of these tunes as kitsch hipsterism.

From The Guardian • May 5, 2016

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

I mostly drank the Kool-Aid, convinced that Vice’s traction with young men and devil-may-care hipsterism would find favor with advertisers.

From New York Times • Aug. 24, 2014

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