Meanings
alternative hippydom
- uncountableThe state or quality of being a hippie.
We first went to Aberystwyth when I was 13, at the height of my parents' hippydom.
2011 April 2, Caitlin Moran, The Times1 more example
But James, unlike the rest, avoids the pitfall of trying to figure out what constitutes hippiedom […].
1988 November 11, Tom Boeker, “Hair”, in Chicago Reader - uncountableHippies as a collective group; the world of hippies.
FM radio was the new alternative to AM radio in 1970, and it filled the alternative market niche as the source of music and news for all of California hippiedom.
2021, Rickie Lee Jones, Last Chance Texaco, Grove Press, published 2022, page 152
Origin
- Englishhippie
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*dʰóh₁mos
- Proto-Germanic*dōmaz
- Englishhippiedom
Translations
Finnish hippiys
- hippiysstate or quality
Cite this entry
hippiedom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hippiedom
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