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decelerationists

decelerationists is the plural of decelerationist.

Meaning of decelerationist

Noun

decelerationist (plural decelerationists)

  1. (uncommon) A proponent of slowing down the pace of technological and economic progress; one opposed to accelerationism.
    • The decelerationists, to the contrary, follow E.F. Schumacher, Kirkpatrick Sale and others (including a variety of Protestant denominations) in the belief that slowing down the technocultural and political economic pace, by engaging in local forms of democracy, will render global and national...2014, Jason M. Adams, Occupy Time: Technoculture, Immediacy, and Resistance after Occupy Wall Street, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 97
    Synonyms:
    decel
    Antonyms:
    accelerationist

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Questions about decelerationists

What is decelerationists the plural of?
Decelerationists is the plural of decelerationist.

Words near decelerationists in the dictionary

  1. deceleratingly
  2. deceleration
  3. decelerational
  4. decelerationism
  5. decelerationist
  6. decelerationists
  7. decelerations
  8. decelerative
  9. decelerator
  10. decelerators
  11. deceleratory

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