antiauthoritarian
Opposes centralized power
Antiauthoritarian describes opposition to concentrated power and hierarchical control.
Someone antiauthoritarian distrusts governments, institutions, or leaders who claim authority over others: Her antiauthoritarian streak made her suspicious of any rule she hadn't chosen herself.
The stance ranges from philosophical anarchism to general rebelliousness against being told what to do.
Open resistance to authority
- disobedienceRefusal to follow orders
- insubordinationDefying workplace authority
- noncomplianceFailure to follow requirements
- oppositionActive resistance or dissent
protest · objection · dissidence · recalcitrance · refusal · rejection · contestation · disagreement
Philosophy rejecting state authority
- libertarianAnti-statist political adherent
- egalitarianEquality principle supporter
- decentralizationDistributing power from center
- grassrootsCommon people as political base
participatory · anti-fascism · syndicalism · collectivism · communalism · federalism · anti-imperialism · pluralism
Seeking fundamental systemic change
- insurgentOne who revolts
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- revoltOrganized resistance to power
mutiny · subversive · agitator · radical · guerrilla · activist · militant · saboteur
Unique personal character
- self-expressionConveying one's inner world
- unconventionalDeparting from standard practice
- eccentricUnconventional in character
- bohemianArtistic nonconformist type
iconoclast · counterculture · maverick · avant-garde · originality · idiosyncratic · offbeat · contrarian
Absence of unjust constraint
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
- liberationRelease from constraint
sovereignty · free-will · agency · choice · volition · self-governance · civil-liberties · self-ownership
defiance
Open resistance to authority
- disobedienceRefusal to follow orders
- insubordinationDefying workplace authority
- noncomplianceFailure to follow requirements
opposition · protest · objection · dissidence · recalcitrance · refusal · rejection · contestation · disagreement · unruliness
anarchism
Philosophy rejecting state authority
- libertarianAnti-statist political adherent
- egalitarianEquality principle supporter
- decentralizationDistributing power from center
grassroots · participatory · anti-fascism · syndicalism · collectivism · communalism · federalism · anti-imperialism · pluralism · self-governance
revolutionary
Seeking fundamental systemic change
- insurgentOne who revolts
- uprisingOrganized resistance to power
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
revolt · mutiny · subversive · agitator · radical · guerrilla · activist · militant · saboteur · dissident
individuality
Unique personal character
- self-expressionConveying one's inner world
- unconventionalDeparting from standard practice
- eccentricUnconventional in character
bohemian · iconoclast · counterculture · maverick · avant-garde · originality · idiosyncratic · offbeat · contrarian · freethinker
liberty
Absence of unjust constraint
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
- self-determinationControl over one's fate
- emancipationRelease from legal bondage
liberation · sovereignty · free-will · agency · choice · volition · self-governance · civil-liberties · self-ownership · free-thinking
antiauthoritarianauthoritarian
Favoring absolute control
totalitarian · autocratic · fascist · dictatorial · despotic
antiauthoritariansubmissive
Readily yielding to control
compliant · obedient · deferential · conformist · docile
authority, authorize, authoritative, authorization, authoritarian, authoritarianism, authoritativeness, authoritarians