disenfranchisement.

The removal of voting rights or exclusion from meaningful civic participation.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• voter disenfranchisement
• political disenfranchisement

On the page

The report traced disenfranchisement to registration barriers.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation, evaluation. Commonness: moderately common.