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anticitizenship

anticitizenship noun: behaviour opposite to that expected of a citizen.

Noun

anticitizenship (uncountable)

  1. Behaviour opposite to that expected of a citizen.
    • Rather than furnishing an education in citizenship, it offers an education in anticitizenship.1992, Ronald Beiner, What's the Matter with Liberalism?

Adjective

anticitizenship (comparative more anticitizenship, superlative most anticitizenship)

  1. Opposing the granting of citizenship.
    • This kind of discourse was used in reaction to the anticitizenship campaigns of the populist right-wing parties, which consisted of, for example, posters showing Swiss identity cards with a photo of Osama Bin Laden.2013, Dr Susanne Wessendorf, Second-Generation Transnationalism and Roots Migration

Forms of anticitizenship

comparativemore anticitizenship
superlativemost anticitizenship

Origin of anticitizenship

From anti- + citizenship.

Questions about anticitizenship

What does anticitizenship mean?
Anticitizenship means behaviour opposite to that expected of a citizen.
What part of speech is anticitizenship?
Anticitizenship can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near anticitizenship in the dictionary

  1. anticircumcision
  2. anticircumsporozoite
  3. anticircumvention
  4. anticircus
  5. anticistamines
  6. anticitizenship
  7. anticitrullinated
  8. anticitrulline
  9. anticity
  10. anticivic
  11. anticivil

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