anticitizenship

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noun

Behaviour opposite to that expected of a citizen.

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Meanings

nounanticitizenship (uncountable)
  1. uncountableBehaviour opposite to that expected of a citizen.

    Rather than furnishing an education in citizenship, it offers an education in anticitizenship.

    1992, Ronald Beiner, What's the Matter with Liberalism?
adjectiveanticitizenship (comparative more anticitizenship, superlative most anticitizenship)

comparative more anticitizenship · superlative most anticitizenship

  1. Opposing the granting of citizenship.

    This kind of discourse was used in reaction to the anticitizenship campaigns of the populist right-wing parties, which consisted of, for example, posters showing Swiss identity cards with a photo of Osama Bin Laden.

    2013, Dr Susanne Wessendorf, Second-Generation Transnationalism and Roots Migration

Origin

From anti- + citizenship.

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Translations

Portuguese anticidadania
  • anticidadaniabehaviour opposite to that expected of a citizen
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APA

anticitizenship. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anticitizenship

MLA

“anticitizenship.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anticitizenship. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “anticitizenship,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anticitizenship.

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