Etymology

safetyism

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Today it means: An obsession with keeping people safe from perceived threats. Full definition →

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The story

From safety + -ism. Popularized in the 2018 book The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, see quotations.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.