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antipower

antipower adjective: opposing political power.

Adjective

antipower (comparative more antipower, superlative most antipower)

  1. Opposing political power.
    • Despite the antipower outlook that pervaded American culture, Presidents, beginning with Washington, felt that their conscience, tempered by the advice of their associates, must be their main guide.1968, Doris Appel Graber, Public opinion, the President, and foreign policy
    • This initiative gave birth to an urban movement, the […] SAPE: a way of expressing an identity that was antipoverty, antidepression, and antipower (because it opposed the abas-cost, the uniform imposed by Mobutu) for thousands of young Kinshasans, as well as for Brazzavillians on the other side of...2002, Frank Tenaille, translated by Steven Toussaint and Hope Sandrine, Music Is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music, Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, →ISBN, page 182

Noun

antipower (countable and uncountable, plural antipowers)

  1. Freedom from domination by political power.
    • Withholding knowledge in a situation where it could be useful can be considered antipower. The sharing of knowledge only increases its power.2005, Adriana Elisa Parra Bermúdez, Values Based Education in Community Development: A Colombian Case Study
    • Institutions can play a role here too in helping empower individuals to act as important agents of antipower, through allocating resources to individuals that help foster their political skills and capacities […]2015, Barbara Buckinx, Jonathan Trejo-Mathys, Timothy Waligore, Domination and Global Political Justice

Forms of antipower

Adjective
comparativemore antipower
superlativemost antipower
Noun
pluralantipowers

Origin of antipower

From anti- + power.

Questions about antipower

What does antipower mean?
Antipower means opposing political power.
What part of speech is antipower?
Antipower can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antipower in the dictionary

  1. antipositivistic
  2. antipositivists
  3. antipot
  4. antipous
  5. antipoverty
  6. antipower
  7. antipowers
  8. antipox
  9. antipoxviral
  10. antipoxvirus
  11. antipragmatic

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