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antipolitics en · NOUN

Etymology

Anti-politics (1843), from anti- + politics.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Broad rejection of political institutions and processes.
   • a boisterous antipolitics in which everyone rails against "usurpers in Washington" 2008, Peter Alexander Meyers, Civic war and the corruption of the citizen, page 141:
   • the politics (perhaps we should say the anti-politics) of those who desired no compulsory civil government at all 1853, William Goodell, Slavery and Anti-slavery, page 518:
2. (countable, uncountable) Political activity based on moral or intellectual stature rather than force.
   • Antipolitics means refusing to consider nuclear war a satisfactory answer in any way. 1984, George Konrad, Antipolitics: An Essay:
   • Antipolitics is a form of intellectual resistance[…] 2000, Daphne Berdahl, Matti Bunzl, Martha Lampland, Altering States:
3. (countable, uncountable) An ideology that prefers centralized and arbitrary rule to democratic government
   • The perfection of antipolitics required nonpolitical leadership and the negation of partisan strife. 1978, Brian Loveman; Thomas M. Davies, Jr., The Politics of Antipolitics:
4. (countable, uncountable) Avoidance of political debates and controversies.

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pt antipolítica (Translations)