summitry

1 7.5

Meetings where leaders of countries discuss important issues

noun
/ˈsʌmɪtri/

Formal

: cumbre

After extensive summitry, the heads of state reached a consensus on economic cooperation.
Cold War summitry

Examples

The summitry between the world leaders focused on addressing climate change and global security.
With China, there was talk of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue becoming a "G-2" that would echo the summitry of the Cold War.

Academic text (2011)
But despite this, the main focus on EU politics is the summitry that takes place every few months or to combat crises—an increasingly common event.

Blog text (31)
Furthermore, within the official cultures of bureaucratic summitry, the positions and counter-positions of "negotiation" are taken as potentially representative of the rationality of entire states or even trans-regions ("blocs").

Academic text (2007)
International summitry has become essential for tackling pressing global issues like poverty and health.

Antonyms

isolation

176 3.7

A state of being alone and cut off from other people physically or emotionally

disunity

4 6.4

A situation when people or groups do not agree

How High-Level

summitry

Formal

1 7.5

negotiation

Formal

678 3.5

meeting

∞ 1.0

discussion

∞ 1.4

Surface Forms

summitry singular

summitries plural

Morphology

summitry = summit (transparent) = summit + ry

The meaning ('practice or activity of holding summits') follows directly from 'summit' (meeting of leaders) plus the nominalizing suffix '-ry'.

Etymology

Summitry comes from summit, from Latin summum meaning 'highest', and the ending -ry meaning 'practice of'. Think of the top of a mountain, the 'summit', so summitry is the practice of holding meetings at the highest level, that is, meetings between top leaders.