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New Ageism

New Ageism noun: new Age beliefs and practices generally.

Noun

New Ageism (uncountable)

  1. New Age beliefs and practices generally.
    • Appropriated stories were stripped by New Ageism of their demand for sacrifice and ritual, participation, shamanic guidance requiring more than the effort needed to sit before a television, read a trash novel, or crack open a geode.2009, S. K. Robisch, Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature, page 147

Origin of New Ageism

From New Age + -ism.

Questions about New Ageism

What does New Ageism mean?
New Ageism means new Age beliefs and practices generally.
What part of speech is New Ageism?
New Ageism is a noun.

Words near New Ageism in the dictionary

  1. new adult
  2. new age
  3. New Age music
  4. new age traveller
  5. New Age travellers
  6. New Ageism
  7. New Ageist
  8. New Ageists
  9. new ager
  10. new agers
  11. new agey

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