consociationalism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Where consociationalism and federalism overlay one another, moreover, the continuity of the latter depends on the stability of consociationalism."
- "Consociationalism has been described by its best-known proponent as a system of government based on a "cartel of elites.""
- "The main weakness of consociationalism is that its main successful cases have taken place in Western Europe among groups that have not been in open military conflict with each other. It cannot be established that those societies would not have remained peaceful without consociationalism."
Etymology
Etymology tree English consociational Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English consociationalism From consociational + -ism.