neo-victorian
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Harking back to the Victorian era or fashions.
noun
Someone with neo-Victorian characteristics; a conservative.
Example Sentences
- "neo-Victorian detective fiction"
- "a neo-Victorian domestic ideal of femininity"
- "This sense of the neo-Victorian genre, which emerged in tandem with its recognition and naming in the mid-1990s, can be understood in light of a general British literary resistance to postmodernist thought even more prevalent today than it was in the late twentieth century."
- "Or is that just the way art is now? The neo-Victorian craze is very apposite."
- "The cosmopolitans attacked neo-Victorians for discriminating against gays, feminists, and immigrants, and for stigmatizing the black poor for their “culture of poverty.”"