ethnomasochistic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Our decadent, ethnomasochistic society cannot, however, avoid forging pseudo-heroes or sub-heroes: football players, soap opera stars, humanitarian doctors, […]"
- "How, then, are ethnomasochistic WASPs to be “saved,” above all from themselves?"
- "This is nothing less than the inversion of meaning through the perversion of perception. It is the sacrificing of Shakespeare on the altar of the ethnomasochistic angst that is the bane of postmodernism."
Etymology
From ethno- + masochistic.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: ethno
Usage
Inflected Forms
more ethnomasochistic (comparative)
most ethnomasochistic (superlative)