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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 conflict
Familiarity information: DOVISHNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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