Wokeness

//ˈwəʊk.nəs//

"Wokeness" in a Sentence (10 examples)

Disney should stop trying to force wokeness on the rest of humanity. They world can accommodate everyone, but not everyone needs to be force-fed woke culture.

You can tell this is an old meme because it says "political correctness" instead of "wokeness."

The right's boogyman used to be called "political correctness"; today, they call it "wokeness."

Wokeness is as real as the Doctors' Plot and the Röhm Putsch, and serves the same purpose.

Ron DeSantis defined wokeness as the belief that systemic injustices exist and that they should be remedied.

If "wokeness" is authoritarian, why do all the authoritarians hate it so much?

It's to the point where even a non-allied country like Algeria is obsessed with half-digested American propaganda about "wokeness."

Faux wokeness is the act of identifying yourself as an ally to people of color, but supporting color-blind, savior, or colonialistic approaches to activism. Faux wokeness ignores the intersectional, systemic, and institutional functions of racism.

Justice Clarence Thomas served up a twofer last week: a Supreme Court decision, in Terry v. U.S., that’s noteworthy for its judicial restraint as well as for pushing back at another false racial narrative that has gained popularity in this Age of Wokeness.

What links these developments is a loose constellation of ideas that is changing the way that mostly white, educated, left-leaning Americans view the world. This credo still lacks a definitive name: it is variously known as left-liberal identity politics, social-justice activism or, simply, wokeness.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.