midcult

English

Etymology

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

Noun

midcult (uncountable)

  1. A form of middlebrow culture that copies and adulterates high culture.
    Coordinate term: masscult
    • 2012, Susan Sontag, “11/5/76”, in David Rieff, editor, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
      Only thing Fitzgerald wrote that will last is The Great Gatsby—the rest (Tender Is The Night, The Last Tycoon) is midcult junk.
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