proto-fascism
noun
a political ideology, movement, or tendency having characteristics associated with fascism without being identified as fascism.
proto-fascist
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a word derived from
proto-fascism.
Example Sentences
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Thomas Pynchon hasn’t lost a step with his 1930s tale about the misadventures of a Milwaukee cheese heiress and the detective that travels to proto-fascist Budapest to find her.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Roughly midway through, Pynchon’s characters hightail it all the way to proto-fascist Budapest, where shadows more lethal than any Tommy gun begin to encroach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025
In your chapter about the Italian Futurists, you describe how their culture of in-fighting helped build a proto-fascist revolutionary movement.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2022
Born in 1905, Lev Nussimbaum fled the political violence of his native Azerbaijan for the swanky salons of proto-fascist Europe.
From Time Magazine Archive
