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tricksterism

tricksterism noun: the use of a trickster character in folk literature.

Noun

tricksterism (uncountable)

  1. The use of a trickster character in folk literature.
  2. The philosophical position of being a trickster.
    • Tricksterism was thus a justifiable response to the dehumanizing experience people encountered as slaves.2001, Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Trickster Lives: Culture and Myth in American Fiction, page xv

Origin of tricksterism

From trickster + -ism.

Questions about tricksterism

What does tricksterism mean?
Tricksterism means the use of a trickster character in folk literature.
What part of speech is tricksterism?
Tricksterism is a noun.

Words near tricksterism in the dictionary

  1. tricksome
  2. trickster
  3. trickstered
  4. trickstering
  5. tricksterish
  6. tricksterism
  7. tricksterly
  8. tricksters
  9. trickstress
  10. trickstresses
  11. tricksy

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