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Meaning of ethnomasochistic | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

self-loathing on the grounds of one's own race

derogatory

Examples

“Our decadent, ethnomasochistic society cannot, however, avoid forging pseudo-heroes or sub-heroes: football players, soap opera stars, humanitarian doctors, […]”
“How, then, are ethnomasochistic WASPs to be “saved,” above all from themselves?”
“This is nothing less than the inversion of meaning through the perversion of perception. It is the sacrificing of Shakespeare on the altar of the ethnomasochistic angst that is the bane of postmodernism.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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