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snowflakery

noun

Etymology

From snowflake (“someone hypersensitive to insult or offense”) + -ery.

  1. derived from *pleh₂-✻
  2. derived from *flaką✻ — “something flat”
  3. derived from flak — “loose or torn piece”
  4. inherited from flacca
  5. inherited from flake — “a flake of snow”
  6. compounded as snowflake — “snow + flake”
  7. suffixed as snowflakery — “snowflake + ery”

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being easily offended or insulted.

    • However, there was a great deal of snowflakery and “safe-space-ism” surrounding Regev's appearance, as though the choice were not there for the angry demonstrators simply to ignore him.
    • Snowflakery is a product of the permeation of identity politics among young people, who act awry when someone challenges their worldview because they see it as a direct attack on their identities.
    • So now it is graphic violence or "mature content" to make a political statement in favor of veterans' benefits? Oh, the snowflakery!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for snowflakery. 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