midcult
midcult noun: a form of middlebrow culture that copies and adulterates high culture.
Noun
midcult (uncountable)
- A form of middlebrow culture that copies and adulterates high culture.
- Only thing Fitzgerald wrote that will last is The Great Gatsby—the rest (Tender Is The Night, The Last Tycoon) is midcult junk.2012, Susan Sontag, “11/5/76”, in David Rieff, editor, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN
Origin of midcult
From mid- + cult, coined by Dwight Macdonald in the essay Masscult and Midcult (1960).
Questions about midcult
- What does midcult mean?
- Midcult means a form of middlebrow culture that copies and adulterates high culture.
- What part of speech is midcult?
- Midcult is a noun.
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