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gray rock method

gray rock method proper noun: the practice of deliberately making oneself uninteresting and unresponsive so as to defend oneself against someone who wishes to elicit certain responses, such as a narcissist or psychopath.

Proper noun

the gray rock method

  1. (informal) The practice of deliberately making oneself uninteresting and unresponsive so as to defend oneself against someone who wishes to elicit certain responses, such as a narcissist or psychopath.
    Synonyms:
    gray rocking

Synonyms of gray rock method

Origin of gray rock method

From the idea of a gray rock being an uninteresting object, introduced in 2012 in an article on the Lovefraud website written by the user Skylar.

Questions about gray rock method

What does gray rock method mean?
Gray rock method means the practice of deliberately making oneself uninteresting and unresponsive so as to defend oneself against someone who wishes to elicit certain responses, such as a narcissist or psychopath.
What part of speech is gray rock method?
Gray rock method is a proper noun.

Words near gray rock method in the dictionary

  1. gray power
  2. gray rape
  3. gray rapes
  4. gray reef shark
  5. gray reef sharks
  6. gray rock method
  7. gray rocking
  8. gray scale
  9. gray seal
  10. gray seals
  11. gray short-tailed opossum

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