anticaptivity

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English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ captivity.

Adjective

anticaptivity (comparative more anticaptivity, superlative most anticaptivity)

  1. Opposing the keeping of animals in captivity.
    • 2005, Keneth Brower, Freeing Keiko, page 38:
      Some animal-rights groups and anticaptivity philosophers argued that the whale should be released to the wild immediately.