Anticoercive

Quick meaning: Anticoercive is an adjective meaning Opposed to coercion; anarchistic or libertarian.

Meaning

Opposed to coercion; anarchistic or libertarian.

More Meanings

1. (mathematics) Characteristic of a mapping of elements that tends toward negative infinity as the magnitude of the element tends toward positive infinity.

Example Sentences

For Erasmus's anticoercive heresy was about baptism, not about the state.

Dare I say that the danger to human liberty now is far more "anticoercive" than "coercive" utopianism? Both the anticoercive (meaning libertarian) and coercive (meaning Marxist) utopians share the goal of the withering away of the state.

Founded on such an assumption, the use of force for education's sake may even be described as anticoercive; indeed, to cultivate man's power of understanding is to cultivate his power to confront his circumstances open-eyed and detachedly.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include antianarchic, counter-authoritarian, antiliberty, antilibertarian, antiauthoritarian, anarcho-individualistic.

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