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anticaptivity

anticaptivity adjective: opposing the keeping of animals in captivity.

Adjective

anticaptivity (comparative more anticaptivity, superlative most anticaptivity)

  1. Opposing the keeping of animals in captivity.
    • Some animal-rights groups and anticaptivity philosophers argued that the whale should be released to the wild immediately.2005, Keneth Brower, Freeing Keiko, page 38

Forms of anticaptivity

comparativemore anticaptivity
superlativemost anticaptivity

Origin of anticaptivity

From anti- + captivity.

Questions about anticaptivity

What does anticaptivity mean?
Anticaptivity means opposing the keeping of animals in captivity.
What part of speech is anticaptivity?
Anticaptivity is an adjective.

Words near anticaptivity in the dictionary

  1. anticapitalist
  2. anticapitalistic
  3. anticapitalists
  4. anticapsid
  5. anticapsular
  6. anticaptivity
  7. anticar
  8. anticarbohydrate
  9. anticarbon
  10. anticarcinogen
  11. anticarcinogenesis

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