Anticaptivity

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Opposing the keeping of animals in captivity.

    "Some animal-rights groups and anticaptivity philosophers argued that the whale should be released to the wild immediately."

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"Some animal-rights groups and anticaptivity philosophers argued that the whale should be released to the wild immediately."

Etymology

From anti- + captivity.

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