anti-vaxxerism

English

Etymology

From anti-vaxxer +‎ -ism.

Noun

anti-vaxxerism (uncountable)

  1. Political and/or philosophical opposition to vaccination.
    Synonym: anti-vaxxery
    • 2020 January 4, John Quiggin, “Bushfire smoke's impact will linger long after the air clears”, in The Canberra Times‎[1]:
      Even worse than budget fetishism has been the cultural commitment of the government to climate denialism and do-nothingism. The right's commentariat peddles anti-science nonsense on a par with anti-vaxxerism and flat-Earth cosmology, eagerly lapped up by the mostly elderly readership of the conservative press.
    • 2022, Anthony DiMaggio, “Vaccine Hucksterism: VAERS and the War on Medical Science”, in CounterPunch:
      One of my experiences with anti-vaxxerism traces back to my spouse's concerns immediately after our first son was born (in 2010) that MMR vaccination might be linked to autism.
    • 2025, Thomas Klikauer, “Communicating Conspiracy Fantasies”, in Savaş Çoban, Yasemin Giritli İnceoğlu, editors, Media, Populism and Hate Speech‎[2], page 148:
      The idea is to guide, manipulate, and herd them into the corral of ring-wing extremism. Anti-vaxxerism has been a more current theme. In this case, people were unified and mobilised to attend protest rallies against state-ordered Corona measures.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:anti-vaxxerism.
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