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enemyism en · NOUN

Etymology

From enemy + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The framing of potential conflict in social relations in terms of enmity.
    • I think free-range "enemyism" can keep us from solutions, and needlessly subject groups to a position of "forever enemy-hood." 2024 Sharon T. Friedman, "Is it A Time for Peace Yet? Chief Thomas Quotes our Old Friend Kohelet," in The Smokey Wire: National Forest News and Views, 25 March 2024
    • Animism taken to its final conclusion ... is not only a perspectivism but an "enemyism." 2015, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Cannibal Metaphysics. (Translated by Peter Skafish.) University of Minnesota Press:

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