Agonism

Quick meaning: Agonism is a noun meaning Competitive struggle (especially political).

Meaning

Competitive struggle (especially political).

More Meanings

1. (biochemistry) The relationship between an agonist and a receptor.

Example Sentences

This is where the great replacement comes in. As mendacious and deranged as it is, it provides a structural explanation for various aspects of the polycrisis, and comes with in-built agonism for politicians to exploit.

The internal competition between tendencies or natures that Machiavelli recognizes in individuals and groups and that Nietzsche sees as multiple drives is a form of “agonism.” Agonism is the idea that conflict and struggle are the natural basis of life and that this is replicated in social, political, and cultural life.

Word Forms

• agonisms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sportocracy, anticompetition, successism, counter-opposition, struggleism, oppositionism.

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