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I think you create your own hipness.
Peabo Bryson

Meaning of "hipness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HIPNESS

hipness  [ˈhɪpnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HIPNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hipness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HIPNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hip (slang)

Hip is a slang term meaning fashionably current and in the know. Hip is the opposite of square or jeff. Hip, like cool, does not refer to one specific quality. What is considered hip is continuously changing. The term hip is recorded in African American Vernacular English in the early 1900s, derived from the earlier form hep. In the 1930s and 1940s, it had become a common slang term, particularly in the African-American dominated jazz scene. Despite research and speculation by both amateur and professional etymologists, the previous origins of the term hip and hep are disputed. Many etymologists believe that the terms hip, hep and hepcat derive from the west African Wolof language word hepicat, which means "one who has his eyes open". Some etymologists reject this, however, tracing the origin of this putative etymology to David Dalby, a scholar of African languages who tentatively...

Definition of hipness in the English dictionary

The definition of hipness in the dictionary is the quality of being hip.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HIPNESS


Amazonas
ˌæməˈzəʊnəs
anus
ˈeɪnəs
bonus
ˈbəʊnəs
Campinas
kæmˈpiːnəs
campness
ˈkæmpnəs
cavernous
ˈkævənəs
consciousness
ˈkɒnʃəsnəs
deepness
ˈdiːpnəs
genus
ˈdʒiːnəs
indigenous
ɪnˈdɪdʒɪnəs
jimpness
ˈdʒɪmpnəs
Jonas
ˈdʒəʊnəs
minus
ˈmaɪnəs
overripeness
ˌəʊvəˈraɪpnəs
scrimpness
ˈskrɪmpnəs
sinus
ˈsaɪnəs
stuck-upness
ˌstʌkˈʌpnəs
unripeness
ʌnˈraɪpnəs
Venus
ˈviːnəs
wellness
ˈwɛlnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HIPNESS

hip-hop
hip-huggers
hip-hugging
hip-shot
hipbone
hiphugger
hipless
hiplike
hipline
hiply
hipparch
Hipparchus
Hipparchus satellite
hippeastrum
hipped
hipped roof
hippen
hipper
hippest
hippiatric

WORDS THAT END LIKE HIPNESS

awareness
business
cheapness
crispness
dampness
darkness
do the business
effectiveness
fitness
happiness
illness
in the wilderness
limpness
madness
plumpness
sharpness
steepness
thickness
tiredness
witness

Synonyms and antonyms of hipness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hipness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HIPNESS

Find out the translation of hipness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hipness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hipness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

hipness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hipness
570 millions of speakers

English

hipness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hipness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

هيبنيس
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

модности
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

vanguardismo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

hipness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

branchitude
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hipness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hipness
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

流行に敏感なこと
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

신제품 등과 잘 어울린다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hipness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hipness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

hipness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हिपनेस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hipness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ambiguo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hipness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

модності
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fi hip
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

hipness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hipness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hipness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hipness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hipness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HIPNESS»

The term «hipness» is normally little used and occupies the 113.373 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HIPNESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hipness

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QUOTES WITH «HIPNESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hipness.
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Peabo Bryson
I think you create your own hipness.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HIPNESS»

Discover the use of hipness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hipness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture
When Russell writes that hipster idioms are based on a “limited vocabulary which relies importantly on inflection,” he is noting a fundamental problem of hipness for writing. If hipness is oriented to individual experience in particular times and ...
Phil Ford, 2013
2
Popular Music and Film
Miami Vice is only a rather conspicuous example of what has emerged as a primary objective in the design of musical soundtracks in recent years: the pursuit of 'hipness'. While we may use other words, we are all familiar with some version of ...
Ian Inglis, 2003
3
Queer Frontiers: Millennial Geographies, Genders, and ...
Along with speed, hipness depends on perspective. I want to think about Schulman's quote alongside Jan Brady's and suggest that one motivation for the charge of mundanity might simply be an irritated response to repetition, rather like Jan's ...
Joseph Allen Boone, 2000
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The Fixer-Upper Man: Turn Mr. Maybe into Mr. Right in 5 Easy ...
You think you are looking for a nice guy, which is what a Hipness-Impaired Fixer- Upper may be, right? Most studies that ask women like you what they are looking for in a man find that nearly everyone writes “nice guy,” “sense of humor,” and ...
Cooper Lawrence, 2007
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Feminism, Femininity and Popular Culture
Thornton notes that the emphasis on resistance, authenticity and 'hipness' in subcultural theory reproduces the ways in which subcultures see themselves in relation to the 'inferior' 'mainstream'. Being a member of a subculture is about ...
Joanne Hollows, 2000
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Gastropolis: Food and New York City
128 In a food culture in which new products and trends are created and consumed at a breathtaking pace, particularly in a metropolis that is universally credited as trendsetting and progressive, hipness ensures that certain establishments will ...
Annie Hauck-Lawson, Jonathan Deutsch, 2013
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Landing on the Wrong Note: Jazz, Dissonance, and Critical ...
In her essay on the construction of “hipness" as a gendered and racialized phenomenon in jazz history, Monson, for instance, talks about the markers of hipness that characterized a particular kind of black male jazz artist. These markers (beret ...
Ajay Heble, 2000
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New York Magazine
The. ailing. network. makes. a. bid. for. ironic. hipness. with. its. new. promo. spots . —. but. can. ads. with. a. cynical. twist. really. sell. viewers. on. a. bunch. of. common-. denom. sitcoms? T H E FIVE NIGHTS A WEEK... STARTING WITH ...
9
The Popular Music Studies Reader
Sarah. Thornton. UNDERSTANDING. HIPNESS. 'Subcultural. capital'. as. feminist . tool. LUBLAND', AS MANY CALL IT, is difficult terrain to map. Club nights continually modify their style, change their name and move location. Individual ...
Andy Bennett, Barry Shank, Jason Toynbee, 2006
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Social Currents in Eastern Europe: The Sources and ...
32 Skvorecky, "Hipness at Noon," 30. 33 Kenneth Roth, "Prague and the Perils of Jazz," Commonweal, 5 June 1987, 352. 34 Quoted in ibid., 353. 35 Josef Skvorecky, "Hipness at Dusk," Cross Currents 6 (1987): 54. 36 One sign of this ...
Sabrina P. Ramet, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HIPNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hipness is used in the context of the following news items.
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How Shepard Fairey's arrest provides a new look at an old question …
The hipness factor of colorful, edgy street art, as increasingly seen in advertising, films and even in fashion, has also contributed to the ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
2
Food Network Star Power Rankings Week 6: The Improv Disaster
The guest host for this week's episode was David Alan Grier, who added a hipness and watchability to the show that was immediately undone ... «UPROXX, Jul 15»
3
I Tried to Sell Air from Williamsburg, Brooklyn on eBay for $20000
If anyone from eBay is reading this, I hope you will reconsider your decision and allow me to spread the hipness of Williamsburg throughout the ... «Noisey, Jul 15»
4
Rush Limbaugh Got Dazed and Confused Trying to Explain 'Wake …
Such evident cluelessness about the basics of weed put Limbaugh on the same level of hipness as Fox New's Steve Doocey, who famously ... «AlterNet, Jul 15»
5
U2 Looks to Silence Critics With 8 Concerts at Madison Square …
The alignment with Apple gave U2 the veneer of hipness it desired—there must be a metaphor somewhere in the fact that the last time U2 ... «New York Observer, Jul 15»
6
People and Places: Greater Palm Springs, California
The man credited with helping bring back some Hollywood hipness to the area by building a convention centre, starting Village Fest every ... «3AW, Jul 15»
7
Karlovy Vary 2015: 'Heil' review
... party leader striving for hipness; a hapless cop attempting to impress his aggressive Arian object of affection; a clueless, gold-draped rapper; ... «CineVue, Jul 15»
8
Midwest Traveler: Kalamazoo, Mich., is a blast
... glass facade of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema — that gave me my first inkling that the town had some hipness hidden up its sleeve. «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»
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Music magazines
It was the champion of independent music, with the power to bestow hipness on whichever floppy-haired quartet it chose. At its height, it would ... «The Economist, Jul 15»
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Portland is “a collection of human turds”: Modest Mouse's Isaac …
Musicians and artists living in hip cities are tiring of the hipness and the surging cost of living that also accompanies it. Some of the backlash is ... «Salon, Jul 15»

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