counterculture /ˈkaʊn.tə(ɹ)ˌkʌl.t͡ʃə(ɹ)/ noun1 •Any culture whose values and lifestyles are opposed to those of the established mainstream culture, especially to Western culture.I suspect that just about everything we still consider valuable and interesting from the Victorian decades will turn out to have belonged to the Victorian counterculture. — 1985 formscountercultures