Dictionary

antinatalism en · NOUN

Etymology

From anti- + natalism.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) A philosophical view that deems procreation as immoral.
   • Efilism, a form of antinatalism also linked to promortalism, gets its name by spelling “life” backwards. 2025 May 21, Manisha Krishnan, “IVF Clinic Bombing Suspect Was Linked to ‘Anti-Life’ Ideology. Experts Fear Its Growing Influence”, in WIRED, archived from the original on 21 May 2025:
   • Antinatalism is a negative view toward human fertility (and perhaps the fertility of other sentient life forms). Philanthropic antinatalism is the belief that humans should not have children for the good of the (unborn) children—that it is better, for humans, not to be born (Benatar, 2006). 2015, Todd K. Shackelford, Ranald D. Hansen, The Evolution of Morality, Springer, →ISBN, page 141:

Antonyms

natalism

Deriveds

antinatalist

Relateds

promortalism · VHEMT · efilism · extinctionism

Translations (9)

sv antinatalism (opposition to the increase in human population) · ru антинатали́зм (opposition to the increase in human population) · pl antynatalizm (opposition to the increase in human population) · hi प्रजनन विरोध (opposition to the increase in human population) · fr antinatalisme (opposition to the increase in human population) · es antinatalismo (opposition to the increase in human population) · pt antinatalismo (opposition to the increase in human population) · de Antinatalismus (opposition to the increase in human population) · hu születésellenesség (opposition to the increase in human population)