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anti-politics

anti-politics is the alternative form of antipolitics.

Meaning of antipolitics

Noun

antipolitics (countable and uncountable, plural antipolitics)

  1. Broad rejection of political institutions and processes.
    • the politics (perhaps we should say the anti-politics) of those who desired no compulsory civil government at all1853, William Goodell, Slavery and Anti-slavery, page 518
  2. Political activity based on moral or intellectual stature rather than force.
    • Antipolitics means refusing to consider nuclear war a satisfactory answer in any way.1984, George Konrad, Antipolitics: An Essay
  3. An ideology that prefers centralized and arbitrary rule to democratic government
    • The perfection of antipolitics required nonpolitical leadership and the negation of partisan strife.1978, Brian Loveman; Thomas M. Davies, Jr., The Politics of Antipolitics
  4. Avoidance of political debates and controversies.

Forms of anti-politics

pluralanti-politics

Questions about anti-politics

What is anti-politics the alternative form of?
Anti-politics is the alternative form of antipolitics.

Words near anti-politics in the dictionary

  1. anti-Pindaric
  2. anti-piracy
  3. anti-plasmodial
  4. anti-police
  5. anti-Polish
  6. anti-politics
  7. anti-porner
  8. anti-porners
  9. anti-predator
  10. anti-progress
  11. anti-proverb

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