againstism

plural againstisms

1. countablerareuncountableThe perspective or activity of being against something, or of having a contrary demeanor in general; a pattern of repeated opposition or criticism.

   The Republican party in those days was not a party of againstism or negativism.

   1950, Collier's, volume 125, Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, page 9

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   The new Administration had come in on a tidal wave of angry againstism — against Hoover, against Big Business, against the bankers and the speculators, whom the American people blamed severally and jointly for all their troubles.

   1944, Benjamin Stolberg, Tailor's progress: the story of a famous union and the men who made it ..., Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., page 203

   'Againstism', it may be thought, is not a quality which would necessarily be welcomed among immigrants.

   1970, Sir Anthony Glyn (bart.), The blood of a Britishman, Hutchinson, page 248

   There is a glorious tradition amongst Italian soccer fans of againstism - supporting whoever is playing against the team you hate.

   2007, John Foot, Winning at All Costs: A Scandalous History of Italian Soccer, Nation Books, →ISBN, page 314

   The protesters displayed what we might call a vague “againstism”: they were against the “government,” the “system,” “hierarchy,” “lack of opportunities,” and ultimately “consumer society” as a whole.

   2012, Bryan-Paul Frost, “Raymond Aron's Pedagogical Constitution and Pursuit of Liberal Education”, in John Von Heyking, Lee Trepanier, editors, Teaching in an Age of Ideology, Plymouth, United Kingdom: Lexington Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 54

   Synonyms: contrarianism