antimajority

English[edit]

antimajority (comparative more antimajority, superlative most antimajority)

Opposing a social majority.
- 1998, R. Honeyford, The Commission for Racial Equality, page 271:
  If further evidence of the BBC's willingness to operate an antimajority colour bar were required, then it was provided in an advertisement in the Guardian of Monday, 6 June 1994. This applied exclusively to "ethnic minority applicants," […]
- 2011, Will Barratt, Social Class on Campus: Theories and Manifestations, page 34:
  The zoot suit was antimajority class and antimajority ethnicity. There are classic black-and-white photos of Bennington College women in the 1940s and 1950s dressed in a manner that offended the townspeople because the women were not "well dressed."