undemocraticness

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Etymology[edit]

From un- +‎ democratic +‎ -ness.

Noun[edit]

undemocraticness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or state of being undemocratic.
    Antonyms: democraticness, democraticity
    • 2001, Barbara Bowen Feied, Dredgings: A Personal and Social History of the 1930s and 1940s, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 183:
      Outrage at the idea of submitting to an autocratic demand, the inherent undemocraticness of it, prompted us to vote not to go along with this and others felt the same so the attorney declined and Fred became acting chairman.
    • 2012, Khair El-Din Haseeb, The Arabs & Africa, Routledge, →ISBN, page 14:
      Howeidi went so far as to say that the ‘undemocraticness’ of the regimes has been the underlying reason for the inadequacy of Afro-Arab national security.
    • 2013, Augustine Ovuoronye Ikelegbe, Oil, Environment and Resource Conflicts in Nigeria, LIT Verlag Münster, →ISBN, page 112:
      The politics of the rentier state is characterized by intensely fierce power struggles, instability, political violence, state violence, poor legitimacy of regimes, kleptocracy, conflicts, undemocraticness, political clientelism and neo patrimony.

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