as in fashionableness
the quality or state of being fashionable
such hipness does not come cheap, and his clothes budget is out of sight
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Recent Examples of hipness
Photos and videos from the period show famous revelers clearly giddy with their own hipness.
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USA Today,
21 Apr. 2025
Partisanship and hipness seemed, ever so briefly, compatible.
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Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
28 Oct. 2024
But there’s not a smack of hipness here, and Jalali is not on a quest for cool.
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Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2023
But travelers have come to a point where too much hipness is no longer really wanted.
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Roxanne Roberts,
Washington Post,
22 Apr. 2023
See All Example Sentences for hipness
USA Today,
21 Apr. 2025
Partisanship and hipness seemed, ever so briefly, compatible.
—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
28 Oct. 2024
But there’s not a smack of hipness here, and Jalali is not on a quest for cool.
—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2023
But travelers have come to a point where too much hipness is no longer really wanted.
—
Roxanne Roberts,
Washington Post,
22 Apr. 2023
See All Example Sentences for hipness
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hipness
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Winemaker Matt Dees brings out elegance and balance in the wines, this one is no exception with juicy, savory, melt in your mouth bright strawberry/currant fruit.
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While an ongoing drought could have led to an overripe style, mild summer temperatures and the vineyard’s privileged position combined to create a wine noted for its elegance and grace.
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Maddie’s Secret isn’t a drag film, although Early had to don a blond wig, breast prosthetics, and hip pads to take on the role.
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The halter style left most of her back exposed, draping crystal and pearl-like embroidery across her shoulder blades, waist and hips.
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But Hilton also supplied fans and coolness in a literal sense.
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There’s a wonderful midpoint Dylan has discovered in his contemporary shows between intensity and coolness.
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Cleage gives the women plenty of substance, though her novelistic mode — more telling than showing — deprives her drama of style.
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The food truck officially launched in 2021 and serves Filipino-style egg rolls, along with dishes such as chicken adobo and pancit, or Filipino-style noodles.
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Despite its recent trendiness, Mahjong’s impact extends well beyond that one incredible scene from Crazy Rich Asians.
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Grillo's and Smoothie King said the inspiration for the smoothie came from pickles’ trendiness and their nutritional value.
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Even when some of the tricks become apparent, each new repetition somehow delivers more than the last, though the weightless, old-school video game aesthetic of the alien monster design sticks out even more amid the stylishness of the world captured in-camera.
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The fresh flip-flop offerings prove that simplicity need not be sacrificed for stylishness, and that all-day comfiness should most certainly not take a back seat to a head-turning summertime aesthetic.
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“Hipness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hipness. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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