Neofascist

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A follower of neofascism.

    "By this summer, everything — her youthful admiration for Benito Mussolini, her party’s links to neofascists, her often extreme rhetoric — had been forgiven."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to neofascism.

    "Throughout this area, which includes the Ruhr, Germany's industrial arsenal, there has been a steady growth in Nationalist and neo-Fascist sentiments in the last six months."

Example

More examples

"The "Grey Wolves" are a Turkish ultranationalist, neofascist, anti-Kurd movement that denies the genocide of the Armenian people."

Etymology

From neo- + fascist.

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