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enemyism

noun

Etymology

From enemy + -ism.

  1. derived from inimīcus
  2. derived from enemi
  3. inherited from enemy
  4. suffixed as enemyism — “enemy + ism”

Definitions

  1. The framing of potential conflict in social relations in terms of enmity.

    • Animism taken to its final conclusion ... is not only a perspectivism but an "enemyism."
    • I think free-range "enemyism" can keep us from solutions, and needlessly subject groups to a position of "forever enemy-hood."

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA