sardonicism
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]sardonicism (usually uncountable, plural sardonicisms)
- The quality of being sardonic
- 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 187:
- As I have shown, “bad” affective modes such as humor, irony, sardonicism, self-reflexivity, satire, and irreverence allow them to confront enduring legacies around Native American and African American relationships to the environment, especially racialized environmental affect, and to critique readerly and other public expectations.
- His sardonicism was getting on my nerves.