nimbyism
See also: NIMBYism
English
Alternative forms
- NIMBYism
Etymology
nimby + -ism
Noun
nimbyism (uncountable)
- (chiefly derogatory) The ideology of a nimby.
- Are the objections to the airport legitimate or is it just a case of nimbyism?
- 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:
- All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism.
- 2022 January 18, Paul Krugman, “Why a Blue City Is Feeling the Blues”, in The New York Times, ISSN 0362-4331:
- And in the case of New York, NIMBYism is ultimately the reason a great global city has become a one-industry town, leaving it unusually vulnerable to pandemic-driven economic dislocations.
Related terms
- nimbyist