anticaptivity

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ captivity

Adjective

anticaptivity (comparative more anticaptivity, superlative most anticaptivity)

1. Opposing the keeping of animals in captivity.
   • 2005, Keneth Brower, Freeing Keiko, page 38:

     Some animal-rights groups and anticaptivity philosophers argued that the whale should be released to the wild immediately.