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nationalitarian

nationalitarian noun: supporting an inclusive concept of nationhood that embraces all members of a society and not just a dominant elite.

Noun

nationalitarian (countable and uncountable, plural nationalitarians)

  1. Supporting an inclusive concept of nationhood that embraces all members of a society and not just a dominant elite.
    • On the other hand, the nationalitarian phenomenon is one in which the struggle against the imperialist powers of occupation has as its object, beyond the clearing of the national territory, the independence and sovereignty of the national State, uprooting in depth the positions of the ex-colonial...1981, Anouar Abdel-Malek, Social Dialectics: Nation and Revolution, page 13
    • And the birth of nations implies many artifices: Not only are they constituted in an active struggle against the imperial or evolved systems, the feudal systems, and the autonomous cities, but they crush their own "minorities," in other words, minoritarian phenomena that could be termed...1987, Deleuze & Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, page 456

Forms of nationalitarian

pluralnationalitarians

Origin of nationalitarian

From nationality + -arian.

Words formed from nationalitarian

Questions about nationalitarian

What does nationalitarian mean?
Nationalitarian means supporting an inclusive concept of nationhood that embraces all members of a society and not just a dominant elite.
What part of speech is nationalitarian?
Nationalitarian is a noun.
What is the plural of nationalitarian?
The plural of nationalitarian is nationalitarians.

Words near nationalitarian in the dictionary

  1. nationalist
  2. Nationalist China
  3. nationalistic
  4. nationalistically
  5. nationalists
  6. nationalitarian
  7. nationalitarianism
  8. nationalitarianisms
  9. nationalitarians
  10. nationalities
  11. nationality

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