pp. Explaining in a condescending way, particularly from a point of view of power or privilege.
2015
Without encyclopedic infodumping recaps, without condesplaining narration, the writing caught me up and swept me along as easily as if I’d already read the previous volumes.
2014
‘splaining (whitesplaining, mansplaining, etcetera, known more generally as privsplaining or condesplaining) is a thing privileged people often do as a result of a culturally-ingrained expectation that their opinion is inherently valuable regardless of actual expertise.
2011
I would like to suggest condesplaining
Explaining in a condescending manner to one who you consider as less than yourself in a number of ways.
Explaining in a condescending manner to one who you consider as less than yourself in a number of ways.
2009 (earliest)
new word of the day, stolen from sessifet: condesplaining. I love it.
Some variations on the condesplaining theme:
- ablesplaining — An able-bodied person explaining disability to a disabled person.
- cisplaining — A person who accepts their gender explaining gender issues to a transsexual or gender-variant person.
- econosplaining — A well-off person explaining poverty to a poor person.
- mansplaining — A man explaining misogyny to a woman.
- NTsplaining — A neurotypical person explaining autism to an autistic person.
- sizesplaining — A person of "normal" body size explaining body issues to a thinner or heavier person. (The specific instance of a thin person condesplaining to a heavier person is called thinsplaining.)
- straightsplaining — A heterosexual person explaining homophobia to a gay person (also called heterosplaining).
- whitesplaining — A white person explaining racism to a non-white person.