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tricksterism en · NOUN

Etymology

From trickster + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The use of a trickster character in folk literature.
  2. (uncountable) The 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: