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undemocraticness en · NOUN

Etymology

From un- + democratic + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality or state of being undemocratic.
    • Howeidi went so far as to say that the ‘undemocraticness’ of the regimes has been the underlying reason for the inadequacy of Afro-Arab national security. 2012, Khair El-Din Haseeb, The Arabs & Africa, Routledge, →ISBN, page 14:
    • The politics of the rentier state is characterized by intensely fierce power struggles, instability, political violence, state violence, poor legitimacy of regimes, kleptocracy, conflicts, undemocraticness, political clientelism and neo patrimony. 2013, Augustine Ovuoronye Ikelegbe, Oil, Environment and Resource Conflicts in Nigeria, LIT Verlag Münster, →ISBN, page 112:
    • Outrage at the idea of submitting to an autocratic demand, the inherent undemocraticness of it, prompted us to vote not to go along with this and others felt the same so the attorney declined and Fred became acting chairman. 2001, Barbara Bowen Feied, Dredgings: A Personal and Social History of the 1930s and 1940s, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 183:

Antonyms

democraticity · democraticness

Translations (3)

fi epädemokraattisuus (quality of being undemocratic) · de Demokratielosigkeit (quality of being undemocratic) · hi अलोकतांत्रिकता (quality of being undemocratic)