mediocracyn.

Brit.

/ˌmiːdɪˈɒkrəsi/, U.S.

/ˌmidiˈɑkrəsi/

Origin: Formed within English, by blending. Etymons: mediocre adj., -ocracy comb. form.

Etymology: Blend of mediocre adj. and -ocracy comb. form, perhaps with allusion to mediocrity n. Compare French médiocratie political power in the hands of the mediocre (1869; 1844 in sense ‘intervening power’).

Government by the mediocre; a system within which mediocrity is rewarded.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > ruling class or group > [noun] > other ruling classes or groups

stratocracy1652

Praetorian Guard1735

oligarchy1823

vampirarchy1823

hierocracy1828

gerontocracy1830

Whigocracy1831

plantocracy1839

mediocracy1845

squattocracy1846

snobocracy1853

pedantocracy1856

foolocracy1859

thugocracy1896

pigmentocracy1949

xenocracy1965

1845 Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) 3 Nov. 5/4 The reign of shuffling incompetency and mousing mediocracy approaches its end.

1876 Atlantic Monthly July 86/2 The day which brought the news of the fall of Fort Sumter saw the overthrow of the mediocracy. All the old customs, barriers, molds of opinion, were broken up at a blow.

1909 Daily Chron. 12 July 4/4 We are all at hear agreed upon one political creed. This is that the only really adequate form of government is a ‘mediocracy’... We are happy in our firm belief that..the greatness of the British Empire rests..upon the mediocrity of the middle-classes.

1937 D. Jerrold Georgian Adventure iv. 124 A professional officer corps..reinforcing itself from a mediocracy of successful careerists and yes-men.

1972 H. J. Eysenck Psychol. is about People iv. 198 The conscious cultivation of a mediocracy, in which the bright, the original, the innovators, the geniuses are held back in order to spare the mediocre the spectacle of outstanding success is to me an abomination.

1990 I. MacDonald New Shostakovich (1991) vii. 233 He was simply furious with the Soviet mediocracy and the morally rotten art it brandished as exemplary.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mediocracy
释义	mediocracyn. Brit. /ˌmiːdɪˈɒkrəsi/, U.S. /ˌmidiˈɑkrəsi/ Origin: Formed within English, by blending. Etymons: mediocre adj., -ocracy comb. form. Etymology: Blend of mediocre adj. and -ocracy comb. form, perhaps with allusion to mediocrity n. Compare French médiocratie political power in the hands of the mediocre (1869; 1844 in sense ‘intervening power’). Government by the mediocre; a system within which mediocrity is rewarded. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > ruling class or group > [noun] > other ruling classes or groups stratocracy1652 Praetorian Guard1735 oligarchy1823 vampirarchy1823 hierocracy1828 gerontocracy1830 Whigocracy1831 plantocracy1839 mediocracy1845 squattocracy1846 snobocracy1853 pedantocracy1856 foolocracy1859 thugocracy1896 pigmentocracy1949 xenocracy1965 1845 Adams Sentinel (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) 3 Nov. 5/4 The reign of shuffling incompetency and mousing mediocracy approaches its end. 1876 Atlantic Monthly July 86/2 The day which brought the news of the fall of Fort Sumter saw the overthrow of the mediocracy. All the old customs, barriers, molds of opinion, were broken up at a blow. 1909 Daily Chron. 12 July 4/4 We are all at hear agreed upon one political creed. This is that the only really adequate form of government is a ‘mediocracy’... We are happy in our firm belief that..the greatness of the British Empire rests..upon the mediocrity of the middle-classes. 1937 D. Jerrold Georgian Adventure iv. 124 A professional officer corps..reinforcing itself from a mediocracy of successful careerists and yes-men. 1972 H. J. Eysenck Psychol. is about People iv. 198 The conscious cultivation of a mediocracy, in which the bright, the original, the innovators, the geniuses are held back in order to spare the mediocre the spectacle of outstanding success is to me an abomination. 1990 I. MacDonald New Shostakovich (1991) vii. 233 He was simply furious with the Soviet mediocracy and the morally rotten art it brandished as exemplary. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1845
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