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means A movement or lifestyle whose values deliberately oppose those of mainstream society.

from Built from 'counter-' (against) plus 'culture,' it entered wide use in the 1960s, popularized by writers describing the youth movements of that decade — hippies, radicals, dropouts — who defined themselves against the establishment's norms. The word itself is a relatively modern coinage, not an ancient one; it names something that may be as old as society itself, but the term crystallized specifically to capture that era's organized rejection of mainstream values.