wokeism
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From woke (“left-wing on social justice issues”) + -ism (forms names of movements, doctrines, etc.).
Noun[edit]
wokeism (uncountable)
- (neologism) The ideology of wokeness, related to left-wing beliefs.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (slang, derogatory, politics) The quality or state of holding left-wing views or attitudes, in a way that is deemed overzealous, performative, or insincere.
- 2021, 23 June, The Daily Telegraph (p. 19): David Goodhart, Has wokeism crushed the working class?
Quotations[edit]
For quotations using this term, see Citations:wokeism.