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What does antidisistablismentarianism mean?

Updated: 8/17/2019
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Let's go through it prefix for suffix. anti = against
dis = against
is = (in this case)?
establishment = establishment
arian = (in this case) person who supports the founding of an establishment
ism = ideology, principle, belief, ...


An anti-dis-establisment-arian-ism (or antidisestablishmentarianism) is a general belief that those who are against establishments are wrong:


disestablishment = opposite of establishemt


disestablishmentarianism = opposite of establishmentarianism


antidisestablishmentarianism = opposite of disestablishmentarianism


it's kind of a double negative, see...


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