Snowflakery

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being easily offended or insulted. derogatory, slang, uncountable

    "However, there was a great deal of snowflakery and “safe-space-ism” surrounding Regev's appearance, as though the choice were not there for the angry demonstrators simply to ignore him."

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"However, there was a great deal of snowflakery and “safe-space-ism” surrounding Regev's appearance, as though the choice were not there for the angry demonstrators simply to ignore him."

Etymology

From snowflake (“someone hypersensitive to insult or offense”) + -ery.

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