different between particularist vs particularism

English

Etymology

From particular +? -ist, after French particulariste.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??t?kj?l???st/

Noun

particularist (plural particularists)

1. One who holds to particularism.

Adjective

particularist (comparative more particularist, superlative most particularist)

1. (theology) Adhering to particularism.
2. Showing excessive devotion to one's own region, nation, party etc.; partisan.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 272:

     The province's identity was fixed on traditionalist and historical attachment to particularist privilege.

Antonyms

• universalist

Related terms

• particularistic

Romanian

Etymology

From French particulariste

Noun

particularist m (plural particulari?ti)

1. particularist

Declension

English

Etymology

From particular +? -ism, after French particularisme.

Noun

particularism (countable and uncountable, plural particularisms)

1. (theology) The principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation.
2. An exclusive focus on a particular group, area, sect etc.
3. (politics) The principle that individual states, races of a federation etc. may act independently of a central authority.
   • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 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

Etymology

From French particularisme

Noun

particularism n (uncountable)

1. particularism

Declension