particularist
English
Etymology
From particular + -ist, after French particulariste.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pəˈtɪkjʊləɹɪst/
Noun
particularist (plural particularists)
- One who holds to particularism.
Adjective
particularist (comparative more particularist, superlative most particularist)
- (theology) Adhering to particularism.
- Showing excessive devotion to one's own region, nation, party etc.
- Synonym: partisan
- 1994 April 7, Edward Luttwak, “Why Fascism is the Wave of the Future”, in London Review of Books, volume 16, number 07, ISSN 0260-9592:
- And what does the moderate Left have to offer? Only more redistribution, more public assistance, and particularist concern for particular groups that can claim victim status, from the sublime peak of elderly, handicapped, black lesbians down to the merely poor.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 272:
- The province's identity was fixed on traditionalist and historical attachment to particularist privilege.
Antonyms
- universalist
Related terms
- particularistic
Romanian
Etymology
From French particulariste.
Noun
particularist m (plural particulariști)
- particularist
Declension
Declension of particularist
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) particularist | particularistul | (niște) particulariști | particulariștii |
| genitive/dative | (unui) particularist | particularistului | (unor) particulariști | particulariștilor |
| vocative | particularistule | particulariștilor | ||