anticivic

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16
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20
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9

Definition of anticivic

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. In opposition to citizenship.
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adj

  1. In opposition to citizenship.
  2. Against the welfare and best interests of citizens and their citizenship.
    “To summarize the findings, no schema (with the exception of one minor schema of alienation) expresses either anticivic or antidemocratic culture, ...”
    “Under television's relentlessly negative portrayal of events, the civic culture of optimism, idealism, rationalism, and nationalism was gradually giving way to an anticivic culture of distrust, a sense of political inefficacy, ...”
    “Milton suggests his republicanism by spurning the anticivic implications of Epicurean garden retirement.”

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Etymology

From anti- + civic.

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