anticoercive

Adjective

anticoercive (not comparable)

1. Opposed to coercion; anarchistic or libertarian.
   • Dare I say that the danger to human liberty now is far more "anticoercive" than "coercive" utopianism? Both the anticoercive (meaning libertarian) and coercive (meaning Marxist) utopians share the goal of the withering away of the state.2002, Peter Augustine Lawler, Aliens in America: The Strange Truth about Our Souls, page xxv
   • Founded on such an assumption, the use of force for education's sake may even be described as anticoercive; indeed, to cultivate man's power of understanding is to cultivate his power to confront his circumstances open-eyed and detachedly.2012, Nathan Rotenstreich, Order and Might, →ISBN, page 165
2. (error-lua-exec) Characteristic of a mapping of elements that tends toward negative infinity as the magnitude of the element tends toward positive infinity.