Metaconflict

Quick meaning: Metaconflict is a noun meaning Conflict over whether or how to engage in a conflict.

Meaning

Conflict over whether or how to engage in a conflict.

Example Sentences

First, the metaconflict places severe constraints on political discourse. Second, it contracts the range of acceptable innovations and future arrangements.

You face this choice repeatedly throughout a conflict; it is so fundamental that parties often get stuck in cycles of metaconflict — conflicting over whether they will engage one another in the conflict.

Word Forms

• metaconflicts

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include controversialism, factionalism, confrontationalism, dialectic, agonism, counterintervention.

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