anti-militarism

noun

an·​ti-mil·​i·​tar·​ism

ˌan-tē-ˈmi-lə-tə-ˌri-zəm,

ˌan-tī- 

variants or antimilitarism

: opposition or hostility to the military or to militarism

The problem, in other words, lay within the military culture itself. Improve it, and antimilitarism will go away or, at least, truly become irrelevant.

—Paul B. Miller

anti-militarist adjective

or antimilitarist

ˌan-tē-ˈmi-lə-tə-ˌrist,

ˌan-tī- 

anti-militarist attitudes

anti-militarist noun

or antimilitarist

The government came down hard on these antimilitarists.

—Robert Gildea

anti-militaristic adjective

or antimilitaristic

ˌan-tē-ˌmi-lə-tə-ˈri-stik,

ˌan-tī- 

In this new antimilitaristic age, it was customary for army officers working in Washington not to wear their uniforms except on ceremonial occasions.

—Geoffrey Perret

Examples of anti-militarism in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

More recently, anti-militarism has been largely the province of the Left, a consequence of the Vietnam War and its aftermath. —Loren Thompson, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1888, in the meaning defined above