Excessive attachment to or domination by one's mother.
〈美，非正式〉惟妈妈主义（指过分依赖妈妈或受她支配）
Example sentencesExamples
Much of his work was concerned with his own nation, for whom he invented the term ‘momism’ to explain how sentimentality and over-simplification would be the ruin of American democracy.
The new attack is not like that of the 1950s and 1960s, which faulted stay-at-home mothers for ‘smother love,’ ‘momism,’ and schizophrenogenic behavior that turned their sons psychotic.
It's a show that actively undermines what's been christened ‘the new momism,’ the cult of the stay-at-home mother.
Definition of momism in US English:
momism
nounˈmɑmˌɪzəmˈmämˌizəm
US informal
Excessive attachment to or domination by one's mother.
〈美，非正式〉惟妈妈主义（指过分依赖妈妈或受她支配）
Example sentencesExamples
The new attack is not like that of the 1950s and 1960s, which faulted stay-at-home mothers for ‘smother love,’ ‘momism,’ and schizophrenogenic behavior that turned their sons psychotic.
It's a show that actively undermines what's been christened ‘the new momism,’ the cult of the stay-at-home mother.
Much of his work was concerned with his own nation, for whom he invented the term ‘momism’ to explain how sentimentality and over-simplification would be the ruin of American democracy.