Gladwellian

English

Etymology

Gladwell +‎ -ian

Adjective

Gladwellian (comparative more Gladwellian, superlative most Gladwellian)

1. Of or relating to Malcolm Gladwell (born 1963), Canadian journalist, author, and speaker.
   • 2014 June, “Tax Fairness and Folk Justice”, in National Tax Journal, page 487:

     Sheffrin has written a book of Gladwellian sweep, one that synthesizes and translates large swaths of fascinating social science research, while also enlivening the analysis with engaging stories from the trenches of tax policy and public finance.

   • 2015, Leslye Headland, Sleeping with Other People:

     Jake: That is a tremendous amount of Malcolm Gladwellian logic jumps.
     Xander: Well you spent ten thousand hours fucking my life up, so bring Lainey to the party.

   • 2017 February 1, Stephen Buranyi, “The high-tech war on science fraud”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The idea that huge, intractable social issues such as sexism and racism could be affected in such simple ways had a powerful intuitive appeal, and hinted at the possibility of equally simple, elegant solutions. If anything united [Diederik] Stapel’s diverse interests, it was this Gladwellian bent.