wokismo

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Portuguese

Etymology

From English woke +‎ -ismo or English wokeism.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /wo(w)ˈkiz.mu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /wo(w)ˈkiʒ.mu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /wo(w)ˈkiz.mo/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /wo(w)ˈkiʒ.mu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /wowˈkiʒ.mu/
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /woˈkiʒ.mu/

Rhymes: -izmu, -iʒmu
Hyphenation: wo‧kis‧mo

Noun

wokismo m (plural wokismos)

(politics) wokeism; movement or group of people who are aware of the seriousness of existing social injustices (namely with regard to issues of discrimination and racism), acting actively to combat them
(politics, derogatory) movement or group of people who promote political correctness and cancel culture by advocating unreasonable or extremist proposals from a position of moral superiority.

Derived terms

wokista

Further reading

“wokismo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024

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