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vapourwave

vapourwave is the alternative form of vaporwave.

Meaning of vaporwave

Noun

vaporwave (uncountable)

  1. A genre of electronic music and visual arts style that emerged in the early 2010s. As a musical genre, it evolved from chillwave and seapunk with influences from lounge music, elevator music, smooth jazz, and 1980s dance-pop. As an aesthetic, it is influenced by 1990s web design and digital art, anime, and cyberpunk.
    • Largely ignored by the mainstream press, vaporwave has instead flourished on websites such as Bandcamp and SoundCloud and on Reddit […] Because vaporwave exists almost entirely outside the sphere of PR and the music industry at large, it has tremendous “underground” appeal. […] Vaporwave is...2016, Grafton Tanner, Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave And The Commodification Of Ghosts, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN, page 7

Questions about vapourwave

What is vapourwave the alternative form of?
Vapourwave is the alternative form of vaporwave.

Words near vapourwave in the dictionary

  1. vapourous
  2. vapourously
  3. vapourousness
  4. vapours
  5. vapourware
  6. vapourwave
  7. vapoury
  8. vapreotide
  9. vaps
  10. vaptan
  11. vaptans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vapourwave (page history and authors); vaporwave (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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