midcult

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A form of middlebrow culture that copies and adulterates high culture.

Word forms

midcult

Etymology

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

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