nondemocracy

English

Alternative forms

• non-democracy

Etymology

From non- +‎ democracy.

Noun

nondemocracy (countable and uncountable, plural nondemocracies)

1. (uncountable) Any political system that is not democratic.
   • 2006, Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, page 176:

     In democracy, the citizens get relatively higher benefits; the elites benefit in nondemocracy.

2. (countable) A regime, country etc. that is not democratic.
   • 2017 May 10, Julian Borger, The Guardian:

     Jeffrey Toobin, a lawyer and legal commentator, called the move “a grotesque abuse of power by the president of the United States”. “This is the kind of thing that goes on in non-democracies,” Toobin said.