Usually means: Rebellion against mainstream societal norms.
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  1. counterculture: Merriam-Webster
  2. counterculture: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. counterculture: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. counterculture: Collins English Dictionary
  5. counterculture: Vocabulary.com
  6. Counterculture, counterculture: Wordnik
  7. counterculture: Wiktionary
  8. counterculture: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. counterculture: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. counterculture: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. counterculture: Dictionary.com
  12. Counterculture: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. counterculture: Rhymezone
  14. counterculture: FreeDictionary.org
  15. counterculture: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. counterculture: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. counterculture: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. counterculture: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. counterculture: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  Any culture whose values and lifestyles are opposed to those of the established mainstream culture, especially to Western culture.

Similar:
counterculturism, counterculturalism, countertrend, antistructure, occulture, countercapital, counterdiscourse, overculture, counterinstitution, antiwesternism, more...

Opposite:
mainstream, conformity, traditional, conservative

Types:
hippie, punk, beatnik, slacker, stoner, metalhead, raver, goth, more...

Phrases:
Counterculture of the 1960s, Timeline of 1960s counterculture, more...

Adjectives:
american, new, youthful, called, radical, political, white, contemporary, feminist, brazilian, west

Colors:
    psychedelic purple,     electric blue,     neon green,     hot pink,     radical red, more...



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Similar:
counterculturism, counterculturalism, countertrend, antistructure, occulture, countercapital, counterdiscourse, overculture, counterinstitution, antiwesternism, more...

Opposite:
mainstream, conformity, traditional, conservative

Types:
hippie, punk, beatnik, slacker, stoner, metalhead, raver, goth, more...

Phrases:
Counterculture of the 1960s, Timeline of 1960s counterculture, more...

Adjectives:
american, new, youthful, called, radical, political, white, contemporary, feminist, brazilian, west

Colors:
    psychedelic purple,     electric blue,     neon green,     hot pink,     radical red, more...



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