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Anti-authoritarianism is opposition to authoritarianism, [1] which is defined as "a form of social organisation characterised by submission to authority", [2] "favoring complete obedience or subjection to authority as opposed to individual freedom". [3] Anti-authoritarians usually believe in full equality before the law and strong civil liberties.
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
Authority is commonly understood as the legitimate power of a person or group over other people. [1] [dead link ] [2] In a civil state, authority may be practiced by legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government, [3] [need quotation to verify] each of which has authority and is an authority. [4]
Dissent is an opinion, philosophy or sentiment of non-agreement or opposition to a prevailing idea or policy enforced under the authority of a government, political party or other entity or individual. A dissenting person may be referred to as a dissenter.
Authority/subversion; Sanctity/degradation; Liberty/oppression. [8] [7] Its authors remain open to the addition, subtraction, or modification of the set of foundations. [2] Although the initial development of moral foundations theory focused on cultural differences, subsequent work with the theory has largely focused on political ideology.
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
An illustration of a weasel using "weasel words". In this case, "some people" are a vague and undefined authority. In rhetoric, a weasel word, or anonymous authority, is a word or phrase aimed at creating an impression that something specific and meaningful has been said, when in fact only a vague, ambiguous, or irrelevant claim has been communicated.
Antonyms are words with opposite or nearly opposite meanings. For example: hot ↔ cold, large ↔ small, thick ↔ thin, synonym ↔ antonym; Hypernyms and hyponyms are words that refer to, respectively, a general category and a specific instance of that category. For example, vehicle is a hypernym of car, and car is a hyponym of vehicle.