yuppiedom

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noun

The condition of being a yuppie.

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Meanings

nounyuppiedom (uncountable)
  1. slanguncountableThe condition of being a yuppie.

    […] the culture of yuppiedom […] seemed threatened with dissolution.

    2009 August 21, Ginia Bellafante, “A Series That Shows Its Age”, in New York Times
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    Richard Greenberg's witty, sometimes insightful look at the perils of yuppiedom is now at Broadway's Golden Theatre.

    1989 January 16, Ruth Gilbert, “Hot Line: The tops in town this week”, in New York Magazine, page 25

    On the one hand, the Bonner marriage anticipates the mid-1980s ideal of yuppiedom […]

    2005, Cynthia Anne Barto Lucia, Framing Female Lawyers: Women on Trial in Film, →ISBN, page 30

    Where Wes Anderson invites his audience to share in the absurdity of inherited wealth and Whit Stillman aestheticizes yuppiedom, Rogers agonizes over his upper-crust circumstances.

    2009 August 7, Ronnie Scheib, “Filmmaker takes a personal spin”, in The Courier-Journal

Origin

From yuppie + -dom.

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APA

yuppiedom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yuppiedom

MLA

“yuppiedom.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yuppiedom. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “yuppiedom,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yuppiedom.

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