Originally Posted by
patentcad
I can only imagine how you feel in the brain drain tsunami of the 33 Twitter Feed.
Oh no, the 33 twitter feed is very 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.
[1] "Highbrow" can be applied to
music, implying most of the
classical music tradition; to literature, i.e.
literary fiction; to films in the
arthouse line; and to comedy that requires significant understanding of analogies or references to appreciate. As the former
buzzword has lost some currency and sounds slightly passé, its use now gives an impression of mild
irony.