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identitarianism

identitarianism noun: politics based on social identity.

Noun (1)

identitarianism (countable and uncountable, plural identitarianisms)

  1. Politics based on social identity.
    • "The radical feminists always wanted in their frantic identitarianism to eliminate the difference between the sexes" (p. 96)Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, The Menace of the Herd, or Procrustes at Large, 1943, e.g.
    1. (capitalized, often) A far-right political movement and philosophy that seeks to preserve European ethnic and cultural identity against the perceived threats of immigration, Islam, and globalization.
      • Needless to add, this augurs badly for the future of the GRECE’s identitarianism, for it now tacitly acknowledges the right of non-Europeans to occupy and partition European lands.2004, Michael O'Meara, New Culture, New Right: Anti-liberalism in Postmodern Europe, page 78
      • Identitarianism is probably the most well-known of these ‘new’ ideologies, despite its fairly recent emergence on the political scene. Employing the lambda symbol, identitarianism has gained increasing purchase amongst youth across western Europe, and France in particular, growing out of the...2020, Tim Nieguth, editor, Nationalism and Popular Culture, Routledge, →ISBN
  2. The set of ideas arising from an ontology of identity.

Noun (2) capitalized: Identitarianism

Identitarianism (uncountable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of identitarianism (“far-right political movement and philosophy”).

Forms of identitarianism

pluralidentitarianisms

Origin of identitarianism

From identitarian + -ism, 1943.

Questions about identitarianism

What does identitarianism mean?
Identitarianism means politics based on social identity.
What part of speech is identitarianism?
Identitarianism is a noun.
What is the plural of identitarianism?
The plural of identitarianism is identitarianisms.

Words near identitarianism in the dictionary

  1. identikit
  2. identikits
  3. identing
  4. identism
  5. identitarian
  6. identitarianism
  7. identitarianisms
  8. identitarians
  9. identitary
  10. identities
  11. identity

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