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counterculturalism

counterculturalism noun: the counterculture movement or lifestyle.

Noun

counterculturalism (usually uncountable, plural counterculturalisms)

  1. (usually) The counterculture movement or lifestyle.
    • It was an outgrowth of Jobs's embrace of 60's counterculturalism -- he was a longtime, and rather irritating, vegetarian and lived in a commune.2000 August 10, James Poniewozik, “Operating System”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2019

Forms of counterculturalism

pluralcounterculturalisms

Origin of counterculturalism

From countercultural + -ism.

Questions about counterculturalism

What does counterculturalism mean?
Counterculturalism means the counterculture movement or lifestyle.
What part of speech is counterculturalism?
Counterculturalism is a noun.
What is the plural of counterculturalism?
The plural of counterculturalism is counterculturalisms.

Words near counterculturalism in the dictionary

  1. countercuffs
  2. countercult
  3. countercultist
  4. countercultists
  5. countercultural
  6. counterculturalism
  7. counterculturalisms
  8. counterculturalist
  9. counterculturalists
  10. counterculturally
  11. counterculture

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