hippiedom

[ hip-ee-duhm ]

noun

1. the lifestyle and world of hippies, hippy, especially in the 1960s.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hippiedom¹

An Americanism dating back to 1965–70; hippie + -dom

Example Sentences

The moment, enshrined on the cover of the festival’s ubiquitous album, became a symbol of hippiedom.

From New York Times

Bobbi Ercoline, who one morning during the Woodstock music festival rested her head on her boyfriend’s chest and in that drowsy moment became a symbol of 1960s hippiedom, died on March 18 at her home in Pine Bush, N.Y.

From New York Times

From the time he broke through with the Byrds in 1965, adding sophisticated folk harmonies to chiming rock ‘n’ roll, Crosby surfed the frothy edge of the countercultural wave like few others, defining the sunburst hippiedom of 1960s California.

From Los Angeles Times

Van Peebles next made “Watermelon Man,” about a bigoted White laborer in Los Angeles who wakes up one day and realizes he has turned into a Black man and must journey through the haze of Black Power, police brutality, hippiedom, sex and debauchery.

From Washington Post

But I think, more generally, one of the things I learned while writing this book was while we say that Auroville is a product of ’60s hippiedom, I think hippiedom itself probably came, to some extent, out of the moral breakdown of the Second World War.

From Slate