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名詞

arithmocracy (usually uncountable, 複数形 arithmocracies)

1. A form of government where decisions are made based purely on the numerical majority of supporters.
   • 1909, The Westminster Review, volume 172, page 330:

     And we shall probably find that arithmocracies are more amenable to sentiment than reason, less susceptible of serious and sustained purpose, more open to the disintegrating forces of disunion, and have a tendency to divide and sub-divide into countless cliques with discordant interests.