anti-vaxxery

English

Alternative forms

• antivaxxery

Etymology

From anti-vax +‎ -ery or anti-vaxxer +‎ -y.

Noun

anti-vaxxery (uncountable)

1. (informal) Opposition to vaccines and vaccination; reluctance or refusal to be vaccinated.

   Synonym: anti-vaxxing

   • 2021 January 5, Charles Moore, “Heartening news from the NHS front line finally gives us something to clap about”, in The Telegraph‎^[1]:

     Chadwick cites this as an example of how credulous and ignorant rustic communities were in those days. If one judges by today’s anti-vaxxery, such credulity and ignorance are alive and well, and flourishing on social media.

   • 2022 August 2, Tim Rogers, “No, There Are Not 10 Joe Bidens”, in D Magazine‎^[2]:

     He posted a video supposedly showing Biden deepfakery. It has been viewed 1.4 million times. Other posts on his feed promote antivaxxery and Herschel Walker, who is running for a Senate seat in Georgia and who has claimed he was an FBI agent and came close to murdering someone until voices in his head told him not to do it.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:anti-vaxxery.