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tyrannophilia

tyrannophilia noun: a preference for autocratic forms of leadership.

Noun

tyrannophilia (uncountable)

  1. A preference for autocratic forms of leadership.
    • Like many another novellist, Giraldi expresses admiration for kings and even spends most of his ninth deca indulging in a kind of tyrannophilia, making heroes of Ercole d'Este, Alfonso d'Este, Lorenzo de' Medici, and Francois I. Maria de Pacheco.1977, Robert John Clements, Joseph Gibaldi, Anatomy of the Novella: The European Tale Collection from Boccaccio Chaucer to Cervantes, page 94
    • Rather than attempt to domesticate Nietzsche's tyrannophilia, Staten instead investigates the possibility of a "communication of energy" within the economy of Nietzsche's texts between his tyrrannophilia on the one hand and the most profound and sublime elements of his teaching on the other.2002, Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell, Daniel W. Conway, Nietzsche, Philosophy and the Arts, →ISBN, page 10

Origin of tyrannophilia

From tyranno- + -philia.

Questions about tyrannophilia

What does tyrannophilia mean?
Tyrannophilia means a preference for autocratic forms of leadership.
What part of speech is tyrannophilia?
Tyrannophilia is a noun.

Words near tyrannophilia in the dictionary

  1. tyrannizing
  2. tyrannizingly
  3. tyranno-
  4. tyrannophile
  5. tyrannophiles
  6. tyrannophilia
  7. tyrannophilic
  8. tyrannophobe
  9. tyrannophobes
  10. tyrannophobia
  11. tyrannophobic

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