SSA Ontology

Infantilising Reassurance

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Infantilising Reassurance

Scope note: Talking Down in the Name of Comfort

Offering hollow comfort or oversimplified advice that ignores a person’s depth, complexity, or autonomy — often in a patronising tone.

Concept record

Canonical URI

https://www.mcloughlin.world/glossaries/ssa-lexicon/term/infantilising-reassurance/

Related concepts

No explicit related concepts in v0.1.

Status and licence

Published in SSA Ontology v0.1.0. Content licensed CC BY 4.0.

Machine-readable representation

The structured record below is also embedded in this page as JSON-LD.

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Provenance

This concept was extracted from the original SSA Lexicon and republished as a stable ontology resource. Original source page(s): https://www.mcloughlin.world/ssa-lexicon/glossary-of-weaponised-positivty/

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