tribalism

English

Etymology

From tribal +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹaɪ.bə.lɪ.zəm/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɑɪ.bə.lɪ.zəm/

Noun

tribalism (countable and uncountable, plural tribalisms)

1. The condition of being tribal.
2. A feeling of identity and loyalty to one's tribe.
3. The tendency among human beings to form socially cohesive groups within which there exists social pressure upon the individual to conform to either common behaviors, customs, habits, mores and/or norms, and which groups exhibit greater or lesser degrees of exclusivism.
   • 2021, Rustam Atashov, Zamirbek Osorov, The Blessed Almakan:

     If we put an end to regionalism and normalize the flow of great energies in the body of Kyrgyzstan, then there will be a very rapid healing of the whole country and people, who have been vegetating in a semi-paralyzed state for many decades due to the grave illness of tribalism and regionalism.

Antonyms

• cosmopolitanism

Derived terms

• neotribalism

Translations

the condition of being tribal

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: tribalisme
• Finnish: heimolaisuus (fi), heimokuntaisuus, tribalismi (fi)
• French: tribalisme (fr) m
• German: Tribalismus (de) m
• Russian: трайбали́зм (ru) m (trajbalízm), трибали́зм (ru) m (tribalízm)
• Swahili: ukabila (sw)

a feeling of identity and loyalty to one's tribe

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Danish: stammementalitet c
• Finnish: heimokuntaisuus, tribalismi (fi)
• French: tribalisme (fr) m
• German: Stammesdenken n
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Swahili: ukabila (sw)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tribalisme. By surface analysis, tribal +‎ -ism.

Noun

tribalism n (uncountable)

1. tribalism

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	tribalism	tribalismul
genitive-dative	tribalism	tribalismului
vocative	tribalismule