anticoercive

adj

Etymology

From anti- + coercive.

Definitions

  1. Opposed to coercion

    Opposed to coercion; anarchistic or libertarian.

    • Dare I say that the danger to human liberty now is far more "anticoercive" than "coercive" utopianism? Both the anticoercive (meaning libertarian) and coercive (meaning Marxist) utopians share the goal of the withering away of the state.
    • Founded on such an assumption, the use of force for education's sake may even be described as anticoercive; indeed, to cultivate man's power of understanding is to cultivate his power to confront his circumstances open-eyed and detachedly.
    • For Erasmus's anticoercive heresy was about baptism, not about the state.
  2. Characteristic of a mapping of elements that tends toward negative infinity as the…

    Characteristic of a mapping of elements that tends toward negative infinity as the magnitude of the element tends toward positive infinity.

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