单词 | hipness |
释义 | hipnessn. The condition or quality of being hip (in either sense of the adjective); (now chiefly) stylish sophistication, coolness. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] fashionableness1640 à-la-modeness1669 modishness1676 à la modality1753 tonishness1780 style1807 stylishnessa1817 fashionability1840 swellishness1863 hep1899 hipness1937 coolness1951 hip1956 cool1962 hipdom1962 with-it-ness1963 funkiness1974 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > worldly wisdom > [noun] shrewdnessa1616 common sense1658 savoir vivre1745 savoir faire1788 savoir1823 conventional wisdom1838 sophistication1850 canniness1878 hep1914 hipness1937 move1966 1937 Pittsburgh Courier 2 Oct. 20/6 Hipness begins at 30. 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues xii. 226 Their hipness..bubbled up out of the brute scramble and sweat of living. 1961 New Left Rev. May 47/1 The goofs of the second act did a lot to dispel the hipness of the first. 1971 Black Scholar Jan. 22/2 As Cannonball Adderly has said ‘Hipness is not a state of mind. It is a fact of life.’ 1989 D. Koontz Midnight iii. xxxi. 468 The real Scott, the kid hidden under the layers of hipness and cynicism. 1992 N.Y. Times 16 Aug. v. 15/2 The club has managed to combine comfort, elegance and hipness—..it's not unusual to see silver-haired gentlemen standing side by side with kids with dreadlocks. 2013 T. Thorn Bedsit Disco Queen 44 Living out in the suburbs it was..easy to feel..a bit country-cousin next to their urban hipness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1937 |
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