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DOVISHNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dovishness mean? 

DOVISHNESS (noun)
  The noun DOVISHNESS has 1 sense:

1. any political orientation favoring compromise to avoid conflictplay

  Familiarity information: DOVISHNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DOVISHNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any political orientation favoring compromise to avoid conflict

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("dovishness" is a kind of...):

ideology; political orientation; political theory (an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dovishness"):

peace advocacy (any policy that advocates maintaining peaceful international relations)

Antonym:

hawkishness (any political orientation favoring aggressive policies)

Derivation:

dovish (opposed to war)


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