Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unipartyism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: uni-par-ty-ism
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A political system that has only one political party.

Example Sentences

"Unipartyism, it has been argued, is at once stabilizing and integrative; it reflects the legacy of government by consensus characteristic of most traditional political systems and prevents the dissipation of energy in desultory political strife."
"This transition from unipartyism back to multipartyism was quite a delicate process, and Tanzania is highly commended for the way this change took place."
"First, unipartyism is still vulnerable to parochial intra-party competition."
"Like most political ideologies, it serves primarily to rationalize and legitimate a particular political state of affairs, which in this instance is postcolonial unipartyism."

Etymology

From uni- + party + -ism.

Frequently Paired Words

uniparty multipartyism pluripartyism

Synonyms

monopartyism one-party system

Questions

What does unipartyism mean?: A political system that has only one political party.
Where does unipartyism come from?: From uni- + party + -ism.

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