New Ageism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

New Age +‎ -ism

Noun[edit]

New Ageism (uncountable)

  1. New Age beliefs and practices generally.
    • 2009, S. K. Robisch, Wolves and the Wolf Myth in American Literature, page 147:
      Appropriated stories were stripped by New Ageism of their demand for sacrifice and ritual, participation, shamanic guidance requiring more than the effort needed to sit before a television, read a trash novel, or crack open a geode.