tricksterism

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noun

The use of a trickster character in folk literature.

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Meanings

nountricksterism (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe use of a trickster character in folk literature.
  2. uncountableThe philosophical position of being a trickster.

    Tricksterism was thus a justifiable response to the dehumanizing experience people encountered as slaves.

    2001, Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Trickster Lives: Culture and Myth in American Fiction, page xv

Origin

From trickster + -ism.

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tricksterism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tricksterism

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Chicago

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