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mommyism

mommyism

English

Noun

mommyism (uncountable)

  1. (US) The state or behaviour of a mother.
    • 2013, David Greven, Psycho-Sexual
      I also find it impossible to accept the notion that Hitchcock, so ruthlessly committed, throughout his Hollywood career, to depicting the terrors of American mommyism, would uncritically suggest that the state to which we would like to return is Mother's enveloping, sonorous nurture.
    • 2014, Jody Gehrman, Tart
      [] how the patriarchy created the baby clock mythology to con women into surrendering to mommyism.

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