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highbrow
Used colloquially as a noun or adjective, "highbrow" is synonymous with intellectual; as an adjective, it also means elite, and generally carries a connotation of high culture. The word draws its metonymy from the pseudoscience of phrenology, and was originally simply a physical descriptor.
==Applications==
"Highbrow" can be applied to music, implying most of the classical music tradition; to literature —i.e., literary fiction and poetry; to films in the arthouse line; and to comedy that requires significant understanding of analogies or references to appreciate. The term ''highbrow'' is considered by some (with corresponding labels as 'middlebrow' 'lowbrow') as discriminatory or overly selective;〔Lawrence W. Levine, "Prologue", ''Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America'', 1990: 3〕 and ''highbrow'' is currently distanced from the writer by quotation marks: "We thus focus on the consumption of two generally recognised 'highbrow' genres—opera and classical".〔Tak Wing Chan, ''Social Status and Cultural Consumption'' 2010: 60〕 The first usage in print of ''highbrow'' was recorded in 1884. The term was popularized in 1902 by Will Irvin, a reporter for ''The Sun'' who adhered to the phrenological notion of more intelligent people having high foreheads.
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