austeritarian

Etymology

From austerity + -arian.

austeritarian means advocating or enacting an authoritarian policy of austerity. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.

Why this word is great

AUSTERITARIAN — [Adjective] Advocating or enacting an authoritarian policy of austerity, especially in economic governance. From austerity (from Latin austeritas, "harshness, severity") + the suffix -arian (denoting a person who advocates or believes in a particular thing). Unlike "austerity," which denotes a policy of restraint, or "fiscal conservative," which suggests a principled philosophy, "austeritarian" marries dogma to diktat—the imposition of poverty as a civic virtue. It is the technocrat’s spreadsheet mandating the closure of a community library, the relentless reduction of hospital staff to a decimal-point efficiency, and the cold comfort of a balanced ledger achieved by fraying the social fabric. In its very construction, the word acknowledges a truth: that economic theory, when stripped of political consent, becomes a grim, sacrificial arithmetic.

adj

Advocating or enacting an authoritarian policy of austerity.“The will to convene this Summit of the peoples and alternatives is based on a call (www.altersummit.eu ) that identifies the fundamentally political dimension of the EU crisis : the austeritarian answers are chosen knowingly although they aggravate the crisis, to impose a failover of the social order to an ultra-liberal model - at the cost of millions of jobs, abrupt social decline and significant”

noun

One who advocates or enacts an authoritarian policy of austerity.“And for your Sunday night delectation, we have a reading from the letter of Enda to the Austeritarians…”