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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Trump’s anger, paranoia, dishonesty, and illiberalism operate at human scale, in 140-character bursts.
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Do not ask when this choice between liberalism and illiberalism will come to America.
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Radicals might have insisted that illiberalism and state Zionism were inextricable; that the maintenance of a majority-Jewish nation in a predominantly Muslim region would inevitably require discriminatory policies.
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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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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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