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Beatnik vs Beatnikism - What's the difference?

beatnik | beatnikism |

As nouns the difference between beatnik and beatnikism

is that beatnik is a person who dresses in a manner that is not socially acceptable and whose manner of dress reflects a rejection of conventional norms of thought and behavior; nonconformist in dress and behavior while beatnikism is the social and artistic ideas associated with beatniks.

beatnik

English

(wikipedia beatnik)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who dresses in a manner that is not socially acceptable and whose manner of dress reflects a rejection of conventional norms of thought and behavior; nonconformist in dress and behavior
  • A person associated with the Beat Generation of the 1950s and 1960s or its style.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "beatnik")

    See also

    * Baghdad by the Bay (also coined by Herb Caen) * hepcat * hippie, hippy * jazznik

    References

    English words suffixed with -nik ----

    beatnikism

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The social and artistic ideas associated with beatniks
  • * {{quote-news, year=1995, date=October 6, author=Gerald E. Brennan, title=Naked Censorship, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=At the time, existentialism was the philosophical equivalent of beatnikism , conjuring up images of berets, iconoclasm, and the rejection of status quo values. }}

    See also

    * hipsterism