synthdance

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noun

electronic dance music employing a synthesizer

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Meanings

nounsynthdance (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountableelectronic dance music employing a synthesizer

    The opening cut, "Got to Get Up," is a fresh, buoyant, and tasty an example of current black synthdance music as you'll hear anywhere.

    1983, Voice of Youth Advocates: VOYA, volume 6, page 159
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    Swing Out Sister, a synthdance trio fronted by the marvellously idiosynchratic^([sic]) Corinne Drewery ("My mother keeps hedgehogs in the kitchen — I was always stumbling over their cages," she says), released their Phonogram debut, […]

    1988, MusicWorld, page 12

Origin

From synth + dance.

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synthdance. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/synthdance

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“synthdance.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/synthdance. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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