infantocracy

English

Etymology

From infant +‎ -o- +‎ -cracy.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒkɹəsi

Noun

infantocracy (countable and uncountable, plural infantocracies)

1. Rule by children.
   • 1862, Dinah Maria Mulock, Domestic Stories by the Author of John Halifax, Gentleman, page 253:

     Well, it took a long time to dispose of our new fellow-travellers, for your infantocracy is the most absolute government under the sun.

   • 1968, Frederick C. Crews, The Patch Commission, page 25:

     The Spockian ploy is to announce one's sins and then go right ahead and compound them. All the man does is shed a few crocodile tears over the parents' unhappy lot and then proceed directly with his blueprint for infantocracy.

   • 1992, The Journal of Narrative Technique, volumes 22-23, page 87:

     In Kundera's unsentimental vision, moreover, children serve as emblems of the mindless "infantocracy" overtaking contemporary culture in both East and West.

Synonyms

• kindergarchy
• paedocracy