Word.ws English Dictionary

counterhegemony

counterhegemony noun: an attempt to critique or dismantle hegemonic power.

Noun

counterhegemony (plural counterhegemonies)

  1. An attempt to critique or dismantle hegemonic power.

Forms of counterhegemony

pluralcounterhegemonies

Origin of counterhegemony

From counter- + hegemony.

Questions about counterhegemony

What does counterhegemony mean?
Counterhegemony means an attempt to critique or dismantle hegemonic power.
What part of speech is counterhegemony?
Counterhegemony is a noun.
What is the plural of counterhegemony?
The plural of counterhegemony is counterhegemonies.

Words near counterhegemony in the dictionary

  1. counterhand
  2. counterhands
  3. counterhearing
  4. counterhegemonic
  5. counterhegemonies
  6. counterhegemony
  7. counterhistorical
  8. counterhistorically
  9. counterhistories
  10. counterhistory
  11. counterhomeostatic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: counterhegemony (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “counterhegemony.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/counterhegemony. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.