💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Middle class"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| bourgeoisienoun | (Marxism) The capitalist class. |
| professional classnoun | (in the plural) The groups in society composed of highly educated professionals. |
| bourgeoisnoun | (usually derogatory) A person of any class with bourgeois (i.e., overly conventional and materialistic) values and attitudes. |
| creative classnoun | A proposed socioeconomic class made up of knowledge workers, intellectuals, and various types of artists. |
| new classnoun | (derogatory) The privileged ruling class of bureaucrats and Communist Party functionaries that arose in states that followed the Soviet style of communism. |
| ruling classnoun | (sociology, politics) The social class of a given society that controls that society's political agenda, whether as a formal aristocracy or a party leadership or as an informal unit within democracies. |
| petite bourgeoisienoun | (historical) The lower middle class. |
| subproletariatnoun | (politics) A class of people ranking below the proletariat. |
| lumpenbourgeoisienoun | (Marxism) A middle or upper class that supports colonial masters and has little collective self-awareness or economic base. |
| embourgeoisementnoun | The proliferation in a society of values perceived as characteristic of the middle class, especially of materialism. |
| class warfarenoun | (sometimes derogatory) Conflict between sociopolitical classes. |
| mesocracynoun | government by the middle class |
| organic intellectualnoun | An intellectual member of a social class, as opposed to a member of the traditional intelligentsia that regards itself as a class apart from the rest of society. |
| classismnoun | Discrimination or prejudice that is based on social class, especially against those of lower social class. |
| ethnoclassnoun | A group defined by both ethnicity and social class. |
| chattering classesnoun | (chiefly British) Educated people with liberal opinions and attitudes. |
| class strugglenoun | Conflict between social or economic classes (especially between the capitalist and proletariat classes); the active expression of a theoretical class conflict looked at from any kind of socialist perspective. |
| petty bourgeoisienoun | (Marxism) Synonym of petite bourgeoisie. |
| liberal elitenoun | (politics, derogatory) A stereotype describing a wealthy, educated class perceived as conveniently championing progressive policies and causes that don’t threaten their elite status (e.g. social liberalism, environmentalism), while dismissing those that do (e.g. wealth redistribution), and therefore seen as hypocritical. |
| mediocracynoun | (informal) A social hierarchy in which the mediocre prevails. |
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