hugbox

== English == === Alternative forms === hug box, hug-box === Etymology === From hug +‎ box. === Pronunciation === === Noun === hugbox (plural hugboxes) A therapeutic device designed to apply pressure to the body of a hypersensitive person (usually someone on the autism spectrum) in order to calm them by providing grounding sensory stimulation. Synonyms: hug machine, squeeze box, squeeze machine 2011, Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing, Volume 3, Number 4, October 2011, unnumbered page: She [Temple Grandin] couldn't stand to be touched but was starved for affection and the safety of being contained. This need led to her clever device, the “hug box” which compressed her sides like the cattle chute it was modeled after. (slang) An environment that validates or reinforces a narrow set of beliefs by relying on false positivity and excluding any form of criticism. Synonyms: echo chamber, filter bubble, mutual admiration society, safe space, (vulgar) circle jerk 2011, "The Waif", "I Hate Activists", Oregon Commentator (University of Oregon), Volume 28, Issue 11, 18 May 2011, page 10: Instead, we get a bunch of hugbox panel discussions where people just reiterate the same, obvious points. Yes, rape is bad. We get it. 2015, Peter Heft, "Against 'Safe Spaces'", The Bullsheet (Denison University), Volume 59, Number 92, 23 March 2015, page 1: "Safe spaces" can be created in private or in the context of clubs of closed, tightly knit groups, but attempting to turn an unparalleled public space into a hugbox will solve exactly nothing and create a generation of crybabies. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:hugbox. ==== Translations ==== === Verb === hugbox (third-person singular simple present hugboxes or hugboxxes, present participle hugboxing or hugboxxing, simple past and past participle hugboxed or hugboxxed) (transitive, slang, derogatory, offensive) To insert into a hugbox; to insert into an environment that validates or reinforces a narrow set of beliefs by relying on false positivity and excluding any form of criticism.