dictatoriality

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noun

Dictatorialness, the quality or state of being dictatorial.

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Meanings

noundictatoriality (uncountable)
  1. uncountableDictatorialness, the quality or state of being dictatorial.

    In early life the father is gentle and loving; later on there is an abrupt change to brusqueness and dictatoriality when the child reaches puberty.

    1971, James Provinzano, Chicano Migrant Farm Workers in a Rural Wisconsin County
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    In this section I show that dictatoriality of the derived voting procedure implies dictatoriality of the original social welfare function. This establishes for the case of strict social welfare functions a new proof of Arrow's general possibility theorem […]

    1993, Charles K. Rowley, Social Choice Theory: The aggregation of preferences

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
dictatorialness

Origin

From dictatorial + -ity.

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