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post-democratic

post-democratic adjective: pertaining to a society where democratic procedure is only superficially relevant.

Adjective

post-democratic (comparative more post-democratic, superlative most post-democratic)

  1. Pertaining to a society where democratic procedure is only superficially relevant.
    • Pervasive postdemocratic attitudes and political indifference have enabled Britta Söldner and her business partner Babak Hamwi to develop a new business model. Their company Brücke (Bridge), ostensibly a therapeutic practice for patients with suicidal thoughts, is in reality just a front for an...2019, Anne Fuchs, “Epilogue: Presentist Dystopias or the Case for Environmental Humanities”, in Precarious Times (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought), Ithaca, NY: Cornell...
    • Bong interrogates the superficiality of the parliamentary democracy and reveals how the preexisting system of social ills and corruption has been maintained and has even intensified in postdemocratic Korean society.2020, Nam Lee, “Introduction”, in The Films of Bong Joon Ho (Global Film Directors), New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, →DOI, page 8

Forms of post-democratic

comparativemore post-democratic
superlativemost post-democratic
alternative formpostdemocratic

Origin of post-democratic

From post- + democratic.

Questions about post-democratic

What does post-democratic mean?
Post-democratic means pertaining to a society where democratic procedure is only superficially relevant.
What part of speech is post-democratic?
Post-democratic is an adjective.

Words near post-democratic in the dictionary

  1. post-decremented
  2. post-decrementing
  3. post-decrements
  4. post-democracies
  5. post-democracy
  6. post-democratic
  7. post-digital
  8. post-disaster
  9. post-disco
  10. post-Dobbs
  11. post-doc

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