# masscult

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. The modern industrial equivalent of culture, mass-produced and anonymously consumed, without specialization or connoisseurship.

## Etymology
From mass + cult, coined by Dwight Macdonald in the essay Masscult and Midcult (1960).

## Source
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