goth

Origin: From gothic rock, first used by John Stickney in reference to The Doors in 1967 and used by the late 1970s to describe the musical scene that gave rise to the goth subculture, both from a supposed aesthetic similarity to dark and moody 19th century gothic fiction and earlier gothic art and architecture, from , from , from + -ic, proposed to derive from unattested. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).