particularism
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From particular + -ism, after French particularisme.
Noun
[edit]particularism (countable and uncountable, plural particularisms)
- An exclusive focus on a particular area, group, sect, etc.
- (Christianity, Judaism, theology) The principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation.
- Synonym: (obsolete) particularity
- (politics) The principle that individual states, races of a federation, etc., may act independently of a central authority.
- 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 221:
- Despite the dominance of Castile and the stream of centralizing measures flowing from the new capital in Madrid, Aragonese particularism continued to make itself felt right up to the early eighteenth century.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French particularisme.
Noun
[edit]particularism n (uncountable)
Declension
[edit]singular only | indefinite | definite |
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nominative-accusative | particularism | particularismul |
genitive-dative | particularism | particularismului |
vocative | particularismule |
Categories:
- English terms suffixed with -ism
- English terms derived from French
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Christianity
- en:Judaism
- en:Theology
- en:Politics
- English terms with quotations
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
- Romanian terms derived from French
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian uncountable nouns
- Romanian neuter nouns