Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

humanewashing

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hu-manewash-ing
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The animal welfare analogue of greenwashing.

Uncountable

verb

present participle and gerund of humanewash

Example Sentences

"Now, a new report from the anti-factory farming group Farm Forward seeks to outline the differences between independent and industry animal welfare labels and expose what it calls “humanewashing” among both types of groups. Like the now widely recognized practice of “greenwashing,” Farm Forward says that companies use humanewashing to deceive consumers who care about animal rights, leading them to believe animals were raised according to their expectations of humane treatment even when they were not."

Etymology

From humane + -wash + -ing, following the established pattern of greenwashing, pinkwashing, purplewashing, and similar forms (which came ultimately from the figurative-extension sense of whitewashing as "slapping a paintjob over the truth to hide it and to give a specious nice appearance").

Word Breakdown

Suffix: humane

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does humanewashing mean?: The animal welfare analogue of greenwashing.
Where does humanewashing come from?: From humane + -wash + -ing, following the established pattern of greenwashing, pinkwashing, purplewashing, and similar forms (which came ultimately from the figurative-extension sense of whitewashing as "slapping a paintjob over the truth to hide it and to give a specious nice appearance").

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