anticivic

anticivic

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ civic

Adjective

anticivic (comparative more anticivic, superlative most anticivic)

1. In opposition to citizenship.
2. Against the welfare and best interests of citizens and their citizenship.
   • 1997: Douglas P. Fry, Kaj Björkqvist, Cultural Variation in Conflict Resolution: Alternatives to Violence

     To summarize the findings, no schema (with the exception of one minor schema of alienation) expresses either anticivic or antidemocratic culture, ...

   • 2002: Harold L. Wilensky, Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy and Performance

     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, ...

   • 2002: Joshua Scodel, Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature

     Milton suggests his republicanism by spurning the anticivic implications of Epicurean garden retirement.'

Antonyms

• pro-civic

Translations

against the welfare of citizens

Portuguese: anticívico

References

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