aspheterism
(æsˈfɛtərɪzm)
[f. Gr. ἀ priv. + σϕέτερ-ος one's own, after Gr. σϕετρισµός appropriation.]
The doctrine that there ought to be no private property; communism.
| 1794 Southey in C. Southey Life I. 221 We preached Pantisocracy and Asphete[r]ism everywhere. 1880 Dowden Southey 36 Coleridge, to silence objectors, would publish a quarto volume on Pantisocracy and Aspheterism. |