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Petersonian en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˌpitɚˈsoʊ.ni.ən/ (General-American)
• /ˌpiːtəˈsəʊ.ni.ən/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Peterson + -ian.

Meanings

1. Of or relating to Oscar Peterson (1925–2007), Canadian jazz pianist and composer.
   • The group’s peek-a-boo playfulness and heart-on-sleeve swingingness is a joy. So, too, are Galloway’s wonderful Hodges-esque soprano, Jones’ peppery Petersonian pianistics, and […] 1994, Jazz Times, volume 24:
   • Eric Reed was a curious choice as pianist, since his busy Petersonian attack is the antithesis of Lewis’s, but he acquitted himself with panache, interpolating a neat Erroll Garner passage into “La Cantatrice.” 2004, Gary Giddins, Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 322:
2. Of or relating to Peter G. Peterson (1926–2018), American investment banker who served as US Secretary of Commerce from 1972 to 1973.
   • What about the debt load we’re supposedly imposing on future generations? This is another transparently Petersonian feat of sleight of hand, based on the assertion that while it’s we who incur the debt, it’s our children who will have to pay if off. 2013 February 27, Michael Hiltzik, “Seniors vs. Kids Claim Is a Sham”, in Los Angeles Times, →ISSN, page B1:
   • (See Guardian, 1/4/10, for Dean Baker's debunking of the piece's Petersonian economics.) 2010 January 7, 5321 Dead, 454 Since 1/20/09 [pseudonym], “#WaHoPo Reduced to Letting Lobbyists Write Its ‘News Stories’”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet):
3. Of or relating to Jordan Peterson (born 1962), Canadian clinical psychologist, social critic, and internet personality.
   • This sentence nicely encapsulates Petersonian morality in a nutshell. 2020, Matthew McManus, “Peterson, Classical Liberalism and Post-modernism”, in Ben Burgis, Conrad Bongard Hamilton, Matthew McManus, Marion Trejo, Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson, Winchester, England: Zero Books, →ISBN, page 80:
   • Since Peterson has received massive critique for his claim on Sam Harris’s podcast that facts are not identical to the truth, it might be befitting to come to his defense in a Petersonian way. 2020, Onar Åm, “Peterson, Rand, and Antifragile Individualism”, in Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, volume 20, number 2, Penn State University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, page 412:
   • 2016 November 26, @PorphyCoon, “It's just a bad, ideological religion (in the Petersonian sense), not the old Christendom.”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 21 February 2022, retrieved 21 February 2022.
   • I was thinking about why so many in the radical left participate in "speedrunning" 2021 October 16, Conrad Golden, “I was thinking about why so many in the radical left participate in ‘speedrunning’ […] ”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 16 Oct 2021:
   • Peterson said several times on Thursday night that a healthy society needs debate, including between right and left. But it's hard to say what legitimate leftism might look like, in a Petersonian world. 2017 June 16, David Reevely, “Tilting at Leftist Windmills”, in Ottawa Sun (Postmedia Network), →ISSN, page A11:

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