[f. Gr. ἀ priv. + σφέτερ-ος one’s own, after Gr. σφετερισμός appropriation.] The doctrine that there ought to be no private property; communism.
1794. Southey, in C. Southey, Life, I. 221. We preached Pantisocracy and Asphete[r]ism everywhere.
1880. Dowden, Southey, 36. Coleridge, to silence objectors, would publish a quarto volume on Pantisocracy and Aspheterism.
