ethnocracy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A form of government in which a particular ethnic group holds a disproportionate amount of government power.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "In this sense, ethnocracy as a socio-political regime is outcome of ethnonationalism, that brand of nationalism that views the nation as a "natural" and ethnically "pure" community, as opposed to its liberal conceptualisation as a community based on equal rights and duties."
Etymology
From ethno- + -cracy.