Etymology

Substackerati

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Today it means: Substack authors collectively. Full definition →

English literati ← Latin līterātī
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  1. EnglishSubstack
  2. Latinlītera
  3. Latinlīterātī
  4. Englishliterati
  5. English todaySubstackerati

Blend of Substack + literati. Coined by Clio Chang in a 2020 article (see quotation below).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.