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nanoaggression

nanoaggression noun: a particularly trivial microaggression.

Noun

nanoaggression (plural nanoaggressions)

  1. (derogatory) A particularly trivial microaggression.
    • A recent jag in the feminist jihad has to do with what they are pleased to call microaggressions—what Jonah Goldberg recently worried might become nanoaggressions.2016, Douglas Wilson, Same Sex Mirage: Phantasmagoria at the Altar & Some Biblical Responses, page 201
    • […] and they are obdurately determined to find, or to invent, some nanoaggression that will make it easy for them to stage a bout of moral or social outrage, which, in turn, will help them maintain their status as valiant social justice warriors.2020, Thomas Tsakalakis, Political Correctness: A Sociocultural Black Hole

Forms of nanoaggression

pluralnanoaggressions

Origin of nanoaggression

From nano- + aggression.

Questions about nanoaggression

What does nanoaggression mean?
Nanoaggression means a particularly trivial microaggression.
What part of speech is nanoaggression?
Nanoaggression is a noun.
What is the plural of nanoaggression?
The plural of nanoaggression is nanoaggressions.

Words near nanoaggression in the dictionary

  1. nanoaggregate
  2. nanoaggregated
  3. nanoaggregates
  4. nanoaggregation
  5. nanoaggregations
  6. nanoaggression
  7. nanoaggressions
  8. nanoalloy
  9. nanoalloyed
  10. nanoalloying
  11. nanoalloys

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