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dictatoriality

dictatoriality noun: dictatorialness, the quality or state of being dictatorial.

Noun

dictatoriality (uncountable)

  1. Dictatorialness, the quality or state of being dictatorial.
    • In early life the father is gentle and loving; later on there is an abrupt change to brusqueness and dictatoriality when the child reaches puberty.1971, James Provinzano, Chicano Migrant Farm Workers in a Rural Wisconsin County
    • In this section I show that dictatoriality of the derived voting procedure implies dictatoriality of the original social welfare function. This establishes for the case of strict social welfare functions a new proof of Arrow's general possibility theorem […]1993, Charles K. Rowley, Social Choice Theory: The aggregation of preferences

Origin of dictatoriality

From dictatorial + -ity.

Questions about dictatoriality

What does dictatoriality mean?
Dictatoriality means dictatorialness, the quality or state of being dictatorial.
What part of speech is dictatoriality?
Dictatoriality is a noun.

Words near dictatoriality in the dictionary

  1. dictator
  2. dictatoress
  3. dictatoresses
  4. dictatorial
  5. dictatorialism
  6. dictatoriality
  7. dictatorially
  8. dictatorialness
  9. dictatorian
  10. dictatorie
  11. dictatories

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