mayoritas diam
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Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compound of mayoritas (“majority”) + diam (“silent”), calque of English silent majority.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mayoritas diam (first-person possessive mayoritas diamku, second-person possessive mayoritas diammu, third-person possessive mayoritas diamnya)
- (politics) silent majority: the largest portion of a demographic group or of the population of a political jurisdiction, which is considered to possess political and social views that are not openly declared, but that can nevertheless significantly affect voting patterns and social behavior.
- Synonym: majoriti pasif (Standard Malay)
Further reading
[edit]- “mayoritas diam” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.