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neoreaction

neoreaction noun: a reaction against modern, typically liberal, values.

Noun

neoreaction (uncountable)

  1. A reaction against modern, typically liberal, values.
    • Since 2013, he has become a guru for the US-based far-right movement neoreaction, or NRx as it often calls itself. Neoreactionaries believe in the replacement of modern nation-states, democracy and government bureaucracies by authoritarian city states, which on neoreaction blogs sound as much like...2017 May 11, Andy Beckett, “Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2020

Origin of neoreaction

From neo- + reaction.

Questions about neoreaction

What does neoreaction mean?
Neoreaction means a reaction against modern, typically liberal, values.
What part of speech is neoreaction?
Neoreaction is a noun.

Words near neoreaction in the dictionary

  1. neoquassin
  2. neoracism
  3. neoracisms
  4. neoracist
  5. neoracists
  6. neoreaction
  7. neoreactionaries
  8. neoreactionary
  9. neorealism
  10. neorealisms
  11. neorealist

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