Meaning

1 senses
  1. (informal)The practice of deliberately making oneself uninteresting and unresponsive so as to defend oneself against someone who wishes to elicit certain responses, such as a narcissist or psychopath.

Origin

From the idea of a gray rock being an uninteresting object, introduced in 2012 in an artic

From the idea of a gray rock being an uninteresting object, introduced in 2012 in an article on the Lovefraud website written by the user Skylar.

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