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nanoaggression

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

A particularly trivial microaggression.

derogatory

Examples

“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.”
“[…] 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.”

CEFR level

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