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nimbyism en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English nimby Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English nimbyism From nimby + -ism.

Meanings

1. (countable, derogatory, uncountable) The ideology of a nimby.
   • All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism. 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848, archived from the original on 09 Mar 2023:
   • Are the objections to the airport legitimate or is it just a case of nimbyism?
   • And in the case of New York, NIMBYism is ultimately the reason a great global city has become a one-industry town, leaving it unusually vulnerable to pandemic-driven economic dislocations. 2022 January 18, Paul Krugman, “Why a Blue City Is Feeling the Blues”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2022:

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