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grievance studies

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English

Syllables
grievance s-tud-ies
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Academic fields that are perceived by critics as airing grievances with society rather than rigorously pursuing truth.

Derogatory; Uncountable

Etymology

Coined by English literary critic Stefan Collini in 1999. Popularized in 2018 by James A. Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, and Helen Pluckrose, the perpetrators of the "grievance studies affair".

Usage

Questions

What does grievance studies mean?
Academic fields that are perceived by critics as airing grievances with society rather than rigorously pursuing truth.
Where does grievance studies come from?
Coined by English literary critic Stefan Collini in 1999. Popularized in 2018 by James A. Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, and Helen Pluckrose, the perpetrators of the "grievance studies affair".

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