Playlistism

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The practice of judging other people based on the contents of their music playlist. uncountable

    "This has lead ^([sic]) to a new kind of music snobbery called playlistism. Music snobs amuse themselves by laughing at a colleague's collection of showtunes, or the hopelessly pretentious jazz of the goatee-ed guy at the other end of the dorm."

Example

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"This has lead ^([sic]) to a new kind of music snobbery called playlistism. Music snobs amuse themselves by laughing at a colleague's collection of showtunes, or the hopelessly pretentious jazz of the goatee-ed guy at the other end of the dorm."

Etymology

From playlist + -ism.

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