Definition of illiberalism
: opposition to or lack of liberalism
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Examples of illiberalism in a Sentence
a woman who fails to see that her unexamined faith in political liberalism actually makes her guilty of illiberalism
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Beyond the unprecedented illiberalism of the president’s rhetoric, his approach to governance has been substantively distinctive enough to warrant its own title.
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One possibility that has been much discussed is that it will be seen as the dawn of America’s descent into illiberalism.
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Hungary and Poland, in particular, have taken a turn toward illiberalism and autocracy.
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The aftermath of the incident had made Murray a martyr for free speech, and Harris brought him on the show in part as a statement of disgust with the illiberalism that had greeted Murray on campus.
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Trump’s illiberalism—his cockeyed expressions of admiration for such leaders as Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Rodrigo Duterte, and his heedless detachment from American norms—betrays that faith.
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Nor was Coulter, or any speaker in my time on campus, met by the illiberalism that precipitated the collegiate mobs that prevented Heather Mac Donald from speaking at Claremont and that attacked Charles Murray at Middlebury.
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Freedom of expression is threatened far more by tech monopolies and growing illiberalism in the academy than by Trump’s dumb jabs.
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Freedom of expression is threatened far more by tech monopolies and growing illiberalism in the academy than by Trump’s dumb jabs.
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First Known Use of illiberalism
1839
illiberalism Synonyms
Synonyms
bigotry, dogmatism, illiberality, intolerance, intolerantness, narrow-mindedness, opinionatedness, partisanship, sectarianism, small-mindedness;
Antonyms
broad-mindedness, liberalism, liberality, open-mindedness, tolerance;
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