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globalitarian

globalitarian adjective: totalitarian at a global scale.

Adjective

globalitarian (comparative more globalitarian, superlative most globalitarian)

  1. Totalitarian at a global scale.
    • It cannot put up any resistance to the globalitarian tyranny because it is itself an integral part of it.2001, Theodore Pelagidis, Louka T. Katseli, John Milios, Welfare State and Democracy in Crisis: Reforming the European Model, →ISBN
    • How is it possible to effectively critique a globalized, or globalitarian, system that has more or less abolished the space of serious political critique in favour of a new fetishistic, market orientated, brand of radicalism that cannot even begin to challenge the hegemony of mainstream politics...2010, Mark E Davis, Keith Tester, Bauman's Challenge: Sociological Issues for the 21st Century, page 141

Noun

globalitarian (plural globalitarians)

  1. A proponent of globalitarianism.
    • Since many of the kinds of intervention traditionally thought to be within the purview of governments are less easily achieved or simply impossible today, globalitarians conclude that the state has declined.2001 February, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, “The anthropology of the state in the age of globalization: Close encounters of the deceptive kind”, in Current Anthropology, volume 42, number 1
    • Like any globalitarian, Tamburlaine is fascinated by geography and cartography.2006, Mihai I. Spariosu, Remapping Knowledge: Intercultural Studies for a Global Age, page 83

Forms of globalitarian

Adjective
comparativemore globalitarian
superlativemost globalitarian
Noun
pluralglobalitarians

Origin of globalitarian

Blend of global + totalitarian.

Questions about globalitarian

What does globalitarian mean?
Globalitarian means totalitarian at a global scale.
What part of speech is globalitarian?
Globalitarian can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near globalitarian in the dictionary

  1. globalist
  2. globalistic
  3. globalistically
  4. globalistics
  5. globalists
  6. globalitarian
  7. globalitarianism
  8. globalitarians
  9. globality
  10. globalizability
  11. globalizable

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