Meanings
comparative more nonagist · superlative most nonagist
- alternativeAlternative form of nonageist.
They also list guidelines provided by the Grey Panthers for nonagist portrayals of sexuality.
1997, Bonnie L. Walker, Sexuality and the Elderly: A Research Guide, page 322 more examples
Language is nonracist and nonagist when it treats all races and ages fairly, avoiding negative stereotypes of any group.
2006, Kitty O. Locker, Business and Administrative Communication, page 50[…] suspend the age-stage theories we rely on for rapid, efficient interactions, and instead enter a "nonagist” arena, without secure beliefs in a moral order of adults protecting and controlling helpless, ignorant children, without the rules and laws such as age of consent that protect adult authority and regulate the adult-child dichotomy.
2006, Erik Parens, Surgically Shaping Children
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