minoritarian

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adjective

Of, or related to minoritarianism.

Opposite
Scrabble 14

Meanings

adjectiveminoritarian (comparative more minoritarian, superlative most minoritarian)

comparative more minoritarian · superlative most minoritarian

  1. Of, or related to minoritarianism.

    "Other minoritarian voices were at work challenging and rethinking other dimensions of Jewishness in the United States."

    2012, Alan T. Levenson, The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism
    1 more example

    And the birth of nations implies many artifices: Not only are they constituted in an active struggle against the imperial or evolved systems, the feudal systems, and the autonomous cities, but they crush their own "minorities," in other words, minoritarian phenomena that could be termed "nationalitarian," which work from within and if need be turn to the old codes to find a greater degree of freedom.

    1987, Deleuze & Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, page 456
nounminoritarian (plural minoritarians)

plural minoritarians

  1. One who is in minority.

    "First it argues that becoming with the outside does not fetishise minoritarians, such as woman or animal."

    2011, Frida Beckman, editor, Deleuze and Sex

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

Translations

Russian минорита́рный, минорита́рий
  • минорита́рный (minoritárnyj)of, or related to minoritarianism
  • минорита́рий (minoritárij)one who is in minority
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Chicago

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