wokeness
The quality or state of being wokeThe quality or state of being woke.
» If "wokeness" is authoritarian, why do all the authoritarians hate it so much?
Meaning
1 senses(derogatory, slang, sometimes, uncountable)The quality or state of being woke.
(politisch) wach, woke, links-wokisch
Examples
6 sentencesIf "wokeness" is authoritarian, why do all the authoritarians hate it so much?
The right's boogyman used to be called "political correctness"; today, they call it "wokeness."
You can tell this is an old meme because it says "political correctness" instead of "wokeness."
Ron DeSantis defined wokeness as the belief that systemic injustices exist and that they should be remedied.
Wokeness is as real as the Doctors' Plot and the Röhm Putsch, and serves the same purpose.
Translations
3 languagesOrigin
From woke + -ness.From woke + -ness.
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Word family
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1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable