normcore
Noun
- A unisex fashion trend characterized by average-looking, unpretentious clothing.
- Any style that is mainstream or unremarkable.
Origin / Etymology
From norm(al) (“according to norms or rules or to a regular pattern”) + -core (suffix denoting genres of music and subcultures (often specialized and underground)), coined by the cartoonist Ryan Estrada in a guest comic strip for the webcomic Templar, Arizona on 17 September 2008: see the quotation.
It was popularized in a stylized, tongue-in-cheek trend report produced by the collective K-HOLE in 2013.
Scrabble Score: 12
normcore: not valid in Scrabble (US) TWL Dictionarynormcore: not valid in Scrabble (MW) Merriam-Webster Dictionary
normcore: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 0
normcore: not valid in Words With Friends