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lwa

lwa is the alternative form of loa.

Meaning of loa

Noun

loa (plural loas or loa)

  1. In the voodoo religion, a spirit intermediary between Bondye (the creator god) and human beings.
    • Here, on the Island Below the Sea, the loa have their permanent residence, their primal location.1953, Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen, McPherson & Company, published 2004, page 36

See all 3 meanings of loa

Noun capitalized: LWA

LWA (uncountable)

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of left-wing authoritarianism.
    • Work on a left-wing authoritarianism (LWA) scale, created by replacing the conservatively loaded words and groups mentioned in the original RWA scale with liberal equivalents, has provided initial evidence for LWA.2021, Stanley Feldman, Vittorio Mérola, and Justin Dollman, “THE PSYCHOLOGY OF AUTHORITARIANISM AND SUPPORT FOR ILLIBERAL POLICIES AND PARTIES”, in Vittorio Merola, pages 647-648
    • Until recently there had been only two noteworthy attempts to develop left-wing authoritarianism (LWA) scales but neither involved a sustained research effort.2022, Danny Osborne, Chris G. Sibley, The Cambridge Handbook of Political Psychology (page 180)
    Antonyms:
    RWA

Antonyms of lwa

Forms of lwa

plurallwas
plurallwa

Questions about lwa

What is lwa the alternative form of?
Lwa is the alternative form of loa.
What part of speech is lwa?
Lwa is a noun.
What is the plural of lwa?
The plural of lwa is lwas.

Words near lwa in the dictionary

  1. LVT
  2. LVTs
  3. LVW
  4. LVWs
  5. LW
  6. lwa
  7. Lwalu
  8. lwas
  9. LWB
  10. LWBS
  11. lwei

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lwa (page history and authors); LWA (page history and authors); loa (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.

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