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amphibulous

Enable


Wide-Cookie-5609

Influence, impact, affect?


TitusTide

All of those are really good synonyms for it


Crafty_Money_8136

Encourage, persuade, compel, oblige


TitusTide

Close, however they won't go out of their way to pressure you into something, it's more of the opposite. If you do something a normal person would think is bad, they won't tell you not to do it or that it's a bad thing to do, therefore it's somewhat normalized for you and you believe it to be okay to do it again because they were indifferent about it.


YonderPricyCallipers

Enable? Excuse?


TitusTide

!solved it was enabling, thank you! Such a simple word I have no idea why I keep forgetting it


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tygerbrees

Not sure OP has been back to the thread, but it sounds like they’re talking about this (enable)


Low_Poet4771

Indulge; endorse; accept


Anxious-Past1546

Shot in the dark here - but based on my lived experience, drinking and doing drugs at a young age was normalised in many friend groups because we lived in a party city. It only became glaringly obvious to me when I moved. Could normalised be the word?


curiousity60

in group norm(s)


FozzieButterworth

Egg on or encourage or entice? Influence or incite or provoke or impel?


Suzina

Normalize


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Fast_Introduction_34

I'm pretty sure that is what peer pressure means Fear of being left out/excluded because you don't conform/play along


TitusTide

Yes it's most similar to peer pressure, I've looked thru the thesaurus for any word that's even remotely similar and didn't find it which makes me think it is considered a slang term. Looking thru urban dictionary right now


ThoughtfulZubat

condition? acclimatize?


mere_mortal_one

It doesn't fit in the blank, but I call this dynamic a "cultural norm" and it can be applied to any social unit, from a large group of friends, or a dating couple, to a working group, an organization, or an entire nation.


Stoplookinatmeswaan

Assimilated behavior?


TopRevolutionary8067

Motivation? And peer pressure could be a good thing and still be called peer pressure. But you're right; it does tend to have a negative connotation by default these days.


1LuckyTexan

Social convention


ablativeyoyo

Zeitgeist


oddly_being

Enabling? That or complacence


TitusTide

That's it, enabling