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nationistic

nationistic adjective: of or relating to nationism.

Adjective

nationistic (comparative more nationistic, superlative most nationistic)

  1. Of or relating to nationism.
    • Both nationistic and nationalistic government policies can affect minority language status: it can be expensive and impractical to govern in multiple languages, particularly when those languages are spoken by small numbers of people, […]2003, Suzanne Wertheim, Linguistic Purism, Language Shift, and Contact-induced Change in Tatar (dissertation), page 22

Forms of nationistic

comparativemore nationistic
superlativemost nationistic

Origin of nationistic

From nation + -istic; see nationism.

Questions about nationistic

What does nationistic mean?
Nationistic means of or relating to nationism.
What part of speech is nationistic?
Nationistic is an adjective.

Words near nationistic in the dictionary

  1. nationhood
  2. nationhoods
  3. nationism
  4. nationisms
  5. nationist
  6. nationistic
  7. nationists
  8. nationless
  9. nationlessness
  10. nationlike
  11. nations

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