political orientation vs meritocracy

meritocracy vs political orientation

political orientation and meritocracy both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
political orientation	Yes	No	No	No
meritocracy	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, meritocracy is a hyponym of political orientation; that is, meritocracy is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than political orientation:

political orientation: an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation
meritocracy: the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth

Other hyponyms of political orientation include absolutism, totalism, totalitarianism, anarchism, autocracy, centrism, moderatism, collectivism, communism, conservatism, conservativism, fundamentalism, segregationism, constitutionalism, democracy, social democracy, domino theory, elitism, extremism, fascism, federalism, imperialism, leftism, liberalism, libertarianism, monarchism, Negritude, Orleanism, progressivism, radicalism, reactionism, republicanism, rightism, socialism, theocracy, Utopianism, dovishness, hawkishness, unitarism, anti-democracy, neo-Marxism, Pan-Germanism, social liberalism, pan-Europeanism.

political orientation (noun)	meritocracy (noun)
an orientation that characterizes the thinking of a group or nation	the belief that rulers should be chosen for their superior abilities and not because of their wealth or birth
	a form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects

Difference between political orientation and meritocracy

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