aetonormativity
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any assumption of an age-based norm and particularly the assumption that adults and adult experiences are normative while children and childish experiences are consequently deviant or other.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Could one consequence of aetonormativity be that most picture books are written by adults, despite their target audience being children?"
- "On analogy with the central concept of queer theory, heteronormativity, I propose the concept of aetonormativity (Lat. aeto-, pertaining to age), adult normativity that governs the way children's literature has been patterned from its emergence until the present day."
- "And, relatedly, exploring aetonormativity in children's literature as the normativisation of only some carefully identified adult "powers" could lead to a more complex model of the normalising/othering binary developed in the literature."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin