scenesterism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The culture of scenesters; involvement in a lifestyle associated with a particular music scene.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Wasik's motivation, he claimed in 2006 and later, was to spoof the hipsterism and scenesterism that he found rampant in New York City by creating an artificial and allegedly hip new trend."
- "In a personal post on Medium, Laird said he hoped the ouster would help educate others about systemic sexism in hackerdom, exacerbated by a tendency toward rule-breaking, distrust of legal authorities in reporting transgressions, and some excessive scenesterism: “There's been a lot of looking the other way in the hacker community when powerful people overstep the bounds, and that has to stop.""