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childisms

childisms is the plural of childism.

Meaning of childism

Noun

childism (countable and uncountable, plural childisms)

  1. Responding to children's particular lived experiences
    • Twain and Salinger's common genius, Heiserman and Miller suggest, lay in their masterful use of a colloquial American adolescent's voice to convey their respective "childism," by which they mean the nostalgic wish to recover our inner Adamic child.2005, Leerom Medovoi, Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity, →ISBN, page 75
  2. Empowering children as an oppressed group
  3. Prejudice and/or discrimination against the young.
  4. (countable) A child-like insight or behavior made by an adult
    • About the same time I was working on my life is a circle theory, I was also working on a childism that could define human behavior and explain why people behave the way they do and predict their behavior.2003, Joseph Assante, Wisdom of a Lifetime: Things I Would Want You to Know If I Died Tomorrow, →ISBN, page 34

Questions about childisms

What is childisms the plural of?
Childisms is the plural of childism.

Words near childisms in the dictionary

  1. childish
  2. childishly
  3. childishness
  4. childishnesses
  5. childism
  6. childisms
  7. childkind
  8. childless
  9. childlessly
  10. childlessness
  11. childlike

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