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feelgoodery

noun
/ˌfiːlˈɡʊdəɹi/UK/ˌfilˈɡʊdəɹi/US

Etymology

From feel + good + -ery (suffix meaning ‘the art, craft, or practice of; place of’ forming nouns).

  1. derived from *gʰedʰ-✻ — “to unite, be associated, suit, fit”
  2. inherited from *gōdaz✻ — “good”
  3. inherited from *gōd✻
  4. inherited from gōd
  5. inherited from good
  6. formed as feelgoodery — “feel + good + -ery”

Definitions

  1. Behaviours performed with the purported purpose of promoting emotional happiness and/or…

    Behaviours performed with the purported purpose of promoting emotional happiness and/or certain cultural values; these behaviours may be seen as superficial or unimportant, or as a substitute for more meaningful action.

    • Every mainstream pop musical money-spinner, from Jesus Christ Superstar to Mamma Mia!, finds its origins in Hair 's relentless crassness and misguided feelgoodery, which means I don't have to watch or write about any more of them.
    • We see lots of humanistic feelgoodery on gretting cards, internet memes, wall posters, bumper stickers and the rest, aimed at justifying, in one's mind, the very things that they should feel guilty about.

  2. A place or work containing such behaviours.

    • While the school remains a progressive, liberal feel-goodery, it is also regularly ranked among the West's best liberal arts colleges.
    • Believing it to be an award, she has Maeby's expulsion letter from the "new age feel-goodery" Openings framed.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for feelgoodery. 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