hierarchist

English

Etymology

From hierarchy +‎ -ist.

Adjective

hierarchist (comparative more hierarchist, superlative most hierarchist)

1. Of or pertaining to hierarchy.

   Synonyms: hierarchal, hierarchic

   Antonyms: anarchal, anarchic, anarchist

   • 2011 February 1, Felicity Barringer, “Are We Hard-Wired to Doubt Science?”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     “They believe that society would be better if it stood up more to the hierarchist status quo,” he said. “When something that represents that status quo comes along, there is a cultural resistance to it. That is the underlying cultural reason they will cherry-pick their symptoms and the facts into their ostensibly rational argument against smart meters.”

Noun

hierarchist (plural hierarchists)

1. An advocate for a hierarchy.

   Antonym: anarchist

   • 1996, C. Bloom, Cult Fiction: Popular Reading and Pulp Theory, page 113:

     The fear of corporatism, consumerism, middle-browism and a mass reading public has driven twentieth-century cultural hierarchists.

   • 2011 February 1, Felicity Barringer, “Are We Hard-Wired to Doubt Science?”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     Two of the groups involved, he said, are simply characterized: individualists (most people would call them libertarians, who want the government to butt out) and communitarians, the two poles on the political spectrum. The two other groups, he said, are called hierarchists and egalitarians.