anticitizenship

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English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ citizenship.

Noun

anticitizenship (uncountable)

  1. Behaviour opposite to that expected of a citizen.
    • 1992, Ronald Beiner, What's the Matter with Liberalism?:
      Rather than furnishing an education in citizenship, it offers an education in anticitizenship.

Translations

Adjective

anticitizenship (comparative more anticitizenship, superlative most anticitizenship)

  1. Opposing the granting of citizenship.
    • 2013, Dr Susanne Wessendorf, Second-Generation Transnationalism and Roots Migration:
      This kind of discourse was used in reaction to the anticitizenship campaigns of the populist right-wing parties, which consisted of, for example, posters showing Swiss identity cards with a photo of Osama Bin Laden.