enemyism

noun

enemyism

noun

Etymology From enemy + -ism.

1

The framing of potential conflict in social relations in terms of enmity.

  • Animism taken to its final conclusion ... is not only a perspectivism but an "enemyism."2015, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Cannibal Metaphysics. (Translated by Peter Skafish.) University of Minnesota Press:
  • I think free-range "enemyism" can keep us from solutions, and needlessly subject groups to a position of "forever enemy-hood."2024 Sharon T. Friedman, "Is it A Time for Peace Yet? Chief Thomas Quotes our Old Friend Kohelet," in The Smokey Wire: National Forest News and Views, 25 March 2024

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