dictatoriality

English

Etymology

dictatorial +‎ -ity

Noun

dictatoriality (uncountable)

  1. Dictatorialness, the quality or state of being dictatorial.
    • 1971, James Provinzano, Chicano Migrant Farm Workers in a Rural Wisconsin County:
      In early life the father is gentle and loving; later on there is an abrupt change to brusqueness and dictatoriality when the child reaches puberty.
    • 1993, Charles K. Rowley, Social Choice Theory: The aggregation of preferences:
      In this section I show that dictatoriality of the derived voting procedure implies dictatoriality of the original social welfare function. This establishes for the case of strict social welfare functions a new proof of Arrow's general possibility theorem  […]
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