aspheterism
The view that all property should be in common ownership and that no individual should…The view that all property should be in common ownership and that no individual should benefit from private possession.
Meaning
1 senses(dated, rare, uncountable)The view that all property should be in common ownership and that no individual should benefit from private possession.
Origin
From Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-, the alpha privative, a suffix forming words having a sense oppFrom Ancient Greek ᾰ̓- (ă-, the alpha privative, a suffix forming words having a sense opposite to the word or stem to which it is attached) + σφέτερος (sphéteros, “theirs, their own”) (from σφεῖς (spheîs, “they; themselves”) + -τερος (-teros, suffix forming adjectives expressing some notion of contrast)) + -ism, influenced by σφετερισμός (spheterismós, “usurpation”). The word was coined by English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) in a 1794 letter to fellow poet Robert Southey (1774–1843).
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