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cutecore

cutecore noun: a type of aesthetic, music genre, and fashion style that emphasizes cuteness, pastel colors, and childlike imagery or motifs.

Noun

cutecore (uncountable)

  1. A type of aesthetic, music genre, and fashion style that emphasizes cuteness, pastel colors, and childlike imagery or motifs.
    • In the alternative rock world, cutecore was a rebellion against the dogmatic noise and macho posturing of hardcore punk.1995, Newsweek, page 57
    • The whole thing is designed in the manner of Douglas Coupland’s Generation X primer, with vox pop inserts, conceptual games and puzzles, cutecore slogans and Internet riffs layering the page.2002, Beard, Steve, Aftershocks: the end of style culture, Wallflower Press, →ISBN, page 104

Origin of cutecore

From cute + -core (aesthetic).

Words formed from cutecore

Questions about cutecore

What does cutecore mean?
Cutecore means a type of aesthetic, music genre, and fashion style that emphasizes cuteness, pastel colors, and childlike imagery or motifs.
What part of speech is cutecore?
Cutecore is a noun.

Words near cutecore in the dictionary

  1. cute meets
  2. cute-'em-up
  3. cute-'em-ups
  4. cute-hoorism
  5. Cute-ums
  6. cutecore
  7. cutee
  8. cuteful
  9. cutegore
  10. cuteish
  11. cuteliness

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