mediagenic

adjective

me·​dia·​gen·​ic ˌmē-dē-ə-ˈje-nik 

: attractive or well-suited to the communications media

Examples of mediagenic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Although now crowding 80, President Biden retains some of the mediagenic qualities that ushered him into the political limelight just as political theater became a daily amusement thanks to a constant — if not yet a 24-hour — news cycle. — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2021

Just like Trump supporters, college students expressed their dissatisfaction with large, mediagenic rallies. — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 1 Feb. 2018

Yet, like his mediagenic grandson Lapo Elkann, who famously inherited and still wears things from his grandfather’s wardrobe, Agnelli was as much a creation of the modern publicity machine as Instagram regulars like Nick Wooster would become. — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2016

Word History

First Known Use

1971, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for mediagenic

• allergenic
• androgenic
• antigenic
• authigenic
• autogenic
• biogenic
• bronchogenic
• chromogenic
• cryogenic
• echogenic
• estrogenic
• isogenic