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antihegemonic

antihegemonic adjective: opposing hegemony.

Adjective

antihegemonic (comparative more antihegemonic, superlative most antihegemonic)

  1. Opposing hegemony.
    • He was better than TV, they said, and they claimed him as their leader, but in a completely nonhierarchical, antihegemonic sense of the word, of course.2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 244

Forms of antihegemonic

comparativemore antihegemonic
superlativemost antihegemonic

Origin of antihegemonic

From anti- + hegemonic.

Questions about antihegemonic

What does antihegemonic mean?
Antihegemonic means opposing hegemony.
What part of speech is antihegemonic?
Antihegemonic is an adjective.

Words near antihegemonic in the dictionary

  1. antihectics
  2. antihedonism
  3. antihedonist
  4. antihedonistic
  5. antihedonists
  6. antihegemonic
  7. antihegemonism
  8. antihegemonist
  9. antihegemonists
  10. antihegemony
  11. antihelicase

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