Midcult
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A form of middlebrow culture that copies and adulterates high culture. uncountable
"Only thing Fitzgerald wrote that will last is The Great Gatsby—the rest (Tender Is The Night, The Last Tycoon) is midcult junk."
Example
More examples"Only thing Fitzgerald wrote that will last is The Great Gatsby—the rest (Tender Is The Night, The Last Tycoon) is midcult junk."
Etymology
From mid- + cult, coined by Dwight Macdonald in the essay Masscult and Midcult (1960).
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