English Explanatory Dictionary

masscult

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The modern industrial equivalent of culture, mass-produced and anonymously consumed, without specialization or connoisseurship.

Word forms

masscult

Etymology

From mass + cult, coined by Dwight Macdonald in the essay Masscult and Midcult (1960).

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