chrononormativity
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
the use of time to organize individuals toward maximum productivity; for example, the appropriate time range to start working, have children, or to retire.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Central to Freeman’s argument are the concepts of chrononormativity, the use of time to organize individual human bodies toward maximum productivity"
- "the concept refers to the ‘interlocking temporal schemes necessary for genealogies of descent and for the mundane workings of everyday life’ (xxii) that ‘may include (but are not exclusive to) ideas about the “right” time for particular life stages’ (Riach et al., 2014: 1678), like age-defined periods of compulsory education, the right to vote or marry, and the ‘right time’ to retire."
Etymology
From chrono- + normativity.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: chrono