antivaccination

or an·ti-vac·ci·na·tion

[ an-tee-vak-suh-ney-shuhn, an-tahy- ]

adjective

1. opposed to vaccines and vaccination:

   An image of a skeleton was adopted by the 19th-century anti-vaccination movement to scare people, especially parents, into forgoing smallpox vaccination.

Word History and Origins

Origin of antivaccination¹

First recorded in 1875–80; anti- ( def ) + vaccination ( def )