nanoaggression

English

Etymology

nano- +‎ aggression

Noun

nanoaggression (plural nanoaggressions)

  1. (derogatory) A particularly trivial microaggression.
    • 2016, Douglas Wilson, Same Sex Mirage: Phantasmagoria at the Altar & Some Biblical Responses, page 201:
      A recent jag in the feminist jihad has to do with what they are pleased to call microaggressions—what Jonah Goldberg recently worried might become nanoaggressions.
    • 2020, Thomas Tsakalakis, Political Correctness: A Sociocultural Black Hole:
      […] and they are obdurately determined to find, or to invent, some nanoaggression that will make it easy for them to stage a bout of moral or social outrage, which, in turn, will help them maintain their status as valiant social justice warriors.
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