sociobabble
nounEtymology
From socio- + babble.
- derived from *baba-✻
- derived from *bʰa-bʰa-✻
- inherited from *babalōną✻
- inherited from *bablōn✻
- inherited from *bæblian✻
- inherited from babelen
Definitions
The jargon used by sociologists.
- This urge to be "scientific" — demonstrating again the divine power of that word — is creating a whole new language paralleling English: sociobabble.
- Although he seemed less introspective than the rest and his run-on sociobabble was a bit more aimless, he conveyed the same aura of perpetual distraction.
- For those with a Pollyanna view of the world, gift-giving is (if you can take the sociobabble) the “feminized ideology of love”, motivated by emotions of “nurturant-dependence”.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for sociobabble. 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