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plutography, n.|pluːˈtɒgrəfɪ|
[f. Gr. πλοῦτο-ς wealth + -graphy.]
Tom Wolfe's term for the graphic depiction of the lives of the rich, esp. as a genre of popular literature and journalism.
1985Money Aug. 40/1 Social observer Tom Wolfe..calls the '80s the age of plutography, when a reverence for riches prevails. 1986T. Wolfe in N.Y. Times 15 June vii. 30/3 We live in the epochal moment of plutography, which is the great new American vice of the 1980's. 1987Fortune 6 July 19/3 Magazines that author Tom Wolfe lumps together as plutography, the graphic depiction of the acts of the rich.
Hence plutoˈgraphic a., characteristic of plutography.
1986N.Y. Times 31 Mar. c17/1 Curiosity has grown more shameless and more feverish—more plutographic, in fact. |