nanoaggression
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From nano- + aggression.
Noun
[edit]nanoaggression (plural nanoaggressions)
- (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.