Knee-jerkism

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Knee-jerk behavior. uncountable

    "Not every rock dinosaur reacted with such ill-conceived knee-jerkism."

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"Not every rock dinosaur reacted with such ill-conceived knee-jerkism."

Etymology

From knee-jerk + -ism.

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