different between particularist vs universalist

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

universal +? -ist

Adjective

universalist (comparative more universalist, superlative most universalist)

1. Universal in scope.

   • In this connection, she notes (1984, p. 42) that in Vata (a language of the Kru family, spoken in the Ivory Coast) the normal word-order is [[_VP XP^? V]], where XP^? represents one or more Complements of the head V of VP, and where V is positioned at the right periphery of V-bar. She notes that in Vata, a finite Clause containing an Auxiliary will have the AUX positioned in I between the subject NP and the VP, with the V positioned at the end of the VP, as in [...]
     But if I contains no Auxiliary (i.e. is empty), the Verb of the VP will move from V into I, and hence no longer be positioned at the end of VP, but rather in the characteristic I position between NP and VP: cf.
     [...]
     Here, the movement of the Verb out of VP-final position ([...]) into I produces an obvious change in the linear ordering of constituents, thus lending clear empirical support to the V MOVEMENT analysis. And Koopman goes on to suggest that given that we have clear empirical motivation for positing a rule of V MOVEMENT for languages such as Vata, universalist considerations argue in favor of adopting the V MOVEMENT analysis rather than the AFFIX MOVEMENT analysis for English, in default of any evidence to the contrary.

Antonyms

• particularist

Noun

universalist (plural universalists)

1. A proponent of universalism.

Romanian

Etymology

From French universaliste.

Adjective

universalist m or n (feminine singular universalist?, masculine plural universali?ti, feminine and neuter plural universaliste)

1. universalist

Declension