Anticoercive
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Opposed to coercion; anarchistic or libertarian. not-comparable
"Dare I say that the danger to human liberty now is far more "anticoercive" than "coercive" utopianism? Both the anticoercive (meaning libertarian) and coercive (meaning Marxist) utopians share the goal of the withering away of the state."
- 2 Characteristic of a mapping of elements that tends toward negative infinity as the magnitude of the element tends toward positive infinity. error-lua-exec, not-comparable
Example
More examples"Dare I say that the danger to human liberty now is far more "anticoercive" than "coercive" utopianism? Both the anticoercive (meaning libertarian) and coercive (meaning Marxist) utopians share the goal of the withering away of the state."
Etymology
From anti- + coercive.
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