Contextualizebeta

feel-goodism

noun

Etymology

From feel-good + -ism.

Definitions

  1. A feel-good attitude or approach.

    • I despise the cheap feel-goodism of inspirational cliches, especially when tied to any sport (baseball, anyone?), and I was pleased to learn that fiction writer Earl Stanley Gardner had to take a roundabout way to discover his calling.
    • One thing is certain: This sort of programmatic “feel-goodism” falls short of the more radical biblical unity that is the subject of so much admonishment and instruction in letters to the early church.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for feel-goodism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA