metronormativity
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The assumption that urban cities are preferential homes for all queer people over rural spaces.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Metronormative thinking links welcoming, safe, and liberated with the city and dangerous, homophobic, and closeted with the rural."
- "Metronormative narratives treat rural regions as a spatial closet out of which LGBTQ+ people must emerge by moving to the city and realizing “the full expression of the sexual self.""
- "The efficient way to tell this story is to consider metronormativity as its overall strategy, i.e. a dominant discourse, that puts urban dwelling gays and lesbians versus their rural counterparts in political orientation."
Etymology
From metro- + normativity.