Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

late capitalist

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.78 in modern English

Syllables: late -cap-i-tal-ist
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Characteristic of late capitalism.

Example Sentences

"Indeed, this peculiar juxtaposition of a discourse about needs with discourses about rights and interests is one of the distinctive marks of late capitalist political culture. (Fraser 1989: 162)"
"If tourism is a capitalist phenomenon, overtourism is its demented late-capitalist cousin: selfie-stick deaths, all-you-can-eat ships docking at historic ports, stag nights that end in property crimes, the live-streaming of the ruination of fragile natural habitats, et cetera."
"Nora’s right: The digital afterlife Nathan is in isn’t perfect, but it is perfectly attuned to the show’s earthly world, a 2033 late-late-capitalist America where corporations have found a way to monetize heaven itself."
"[Julio] Torres regularly uses audacious visuals to interrogate the logic of living in our late-capitalist era; there’s nothing more amusing, his stories insist, than being in a world that values companies over people, that forces humans to endure bureaucratic labyrinths just to deem themselves, well, human."

Inflected Forms

more late capitalist (comparative) most late capitalist (superlative) late-capitalist (alternative)

Questions

What does late capitalist mean?: Characteristic of late capitalism.

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