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sardonicism

sardonicism noun: the quality of being sardonic.

Noun

sardonicism (usually uncountable, plural sardonicisms)

  1. (usually) The quality of being sardonic
    • His sardonicism was getting on my nerves.
    • As I have shown, “bad” affective modes such as humor, irony, sardonicism, self-reflexivity, satire, and irreverence allow them to confront enduring legacies around Native American and African American relationships to the environment, especially racialized environmental affect, and to critique...2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 187

Forms of sardonicism

pluralsardonicisms

Origin of sardonicism

From sardonic + -ism.

Questions about sardonicism

What does sardonicism mean?
Sardonicism means the quality of being sardonic.
What part of speech is sardonicism?
Sardonicism is a noun.
What is the plural of sardonicism?
The plural of sardonicism is sardonicisms.

Words near sardonicism in the dictionary

  1. sardoins
  2. Sardonian
  3. sardonic
  4. sardonical
  5. sardonically
  6. sardonicism
  7. sardonicisms
  8. sardonicity
  9. sardonyx
  10. sardonyxes
  11. sardoodledom

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