antipoliticsn.adj.
/ˌantɪˈpɒlᵻtɪks/, U.S. /ˌæn(t)iˈpɑləˌtɪks/, /ˌænˌtaɪˈpɑləˌtɪks/, /ˌæn(t)əˈpɑləˌtɪks/ A. n.
Action, thought, etc., which is antithetical to or in opposition to (esp. mainstream) politics.
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1842 Liberator (Boston) 17 June 93/2 The speeches were a singular tissue of good sense and nonsense, of truth and error,..of politics and anti-politics.
1852 W. Goodell Slavery & Anti-slavery xlii. 518 The politics (perhaps we should say the anti-politics) of those who desired no compulsory civil government at all.
1970 N.Y. Times 29 Apr. 1/2 A democratic party reform commission warned today..that the only alternative to broader citizen participation in politics was ‘the antipolitics of the street’.
1992 Atlantic Mar. 62/2 For Jihad, the antipolitics of tribalization has been explicitly antidemocratic: one-party dictatorship, government by military junta, theocratic fundamentalism.
B. adj.
Opposed to or mistrustful of politics or politicians.
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1913 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 26 Jan. 31/5 The formation of an anti-politics club (or ‘Purity League’, as its opponents dubbed it).
2007 S. Gundle Bellissima 214 Her election..was interpreted as an anti-politics vote on the part of disaffected men who had no interest in the Radicals' agenda.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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