meritocracy
nounHow many syllables in meritocracy?
There are 5 syllables in the word meritocracy.How to pronounce meritocracy:
Definition of meritocracy:
- meritocracy (noun):
- the people who are moved into such positions
- the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth.
- a system, organization, or society in which people are chosen and moved into positions of success, power, and influence on the basis of their demonstrated abilities and merit (see merit entry 1 sense 1b)
Synonyms for meritocracy:
political orientation
political theory
Antonyms for meritocracy:
bad governance
corrupt government
governance by the unfit
idiocracy
incompetent rule
kakistocracy
Here are some other common 5-syllable words.
- mercantilism
- meningococcal
- mendelevium
- memorialised
- mechanization
- maximilian
- mauritania
- masculinity
- manufacturing
- manipulator
- manipulation
- magniloquence
- macedonia
- macadamia
- licentiousness
- liabilities
- leptospirosis
- lasciviously
- lactobacillus
- lacertilian
- keratogenic
- kabaragoya
- judiciary
- judiciable
- judicatory
- iteratively
- isocoria
- irrelevantly
- interrogatives
- interposition
- interpersonal
- interminably
- interlocutors
- intentional
- insidiously
- innocuously
- infraspinatus
- infertility
- infedility
- inexcusably
- inequality
- incredulity
- incredibleness
- incongruity
- incomprehensive
- incendiary
- incarceration
- inauguration
- inadequacy
- inadequacies
- … more
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