gatekeeping
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.10 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act or process of limiting another party's participation in a collective identity or an activity, usually due to undue pettiness, resentment, selfishness, complacency, or overprotectiveness.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Vaginoplasty is a major surgery with significant recovery time, and patients must be medically, socially, and emotionally prepared for success. Patients sometimes express frustration at perceived gate-keeping in requiring mental health evaluation prior to surgery, something that most cis-gender patients undergoing surgery are not required to undergo."