illiberalism

English

Etymology

illiberal +‎ -ism

Noun

illiberalism (countable and uncountable, plural illiberalisms)

1. The principle, state or quality of being illiberal.
   • 2009 January 25, Timothy Garton Ash, “A Liberal Translation”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     As the Oxford political theorist Michael Freeden observed, if just one of the necessary components — for example, the free market — dominates, then the result can be illiberalism.

   • 2017 April, Andrew Sullivan, “The Reactionary Temptation”, in New York Magazine‎^[2]:

     In the Netherlands, the anti-immigrant right became the second-most-popular vote-getter — a new high-water mark for illiberalism in that once famously liberal country.

Synonyms

• illiberality
• antiliberalism

Related terms

• illiberal
• illiberally

Translations

principle, state or quality of being illiberal

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反自由主義／反自由主义 (fǎn zìyóu zhǔyì)

• French: illibéralisme (fr)
• Georgian: არალიბერალიზმი (araliberalizmi), ანტილიბერალიზმი (anṭiliberalizmi)
• German: Illiberalismus
• Japanese: 反自由主義 (han jiyūshugi)
• Spanish: iliberalismo (es)