Scenesterism

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The culture of scenesters; involvement in a lifestyle associated with a particular music scene. uncountable

    "It was an unexpected tip of the fedora from a group of artists who, like Danko Jones, had slogged it out on the late '90s American indie circuit but had since left the insular scenesterism behind to pursue loftier ambitions."

Example

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"It was an unexpected tip of the fedora from a group of artists who, like Danko Jones, had slogged it out on the late '90s American indie circuit but had since left the insular scenesterism behind to pursue loftier ambitions."

Etymology

From scenester + -ism.

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