separatism

English

Etymology

separate +‎ -ism

Noun

separatism (countable and uncountable, plural separatisms)

1. A theory or doctrine which supports a state of separation between organizations, institutions, or other societal groups (e.g. between church and state) or between different political jurisdictions (e.g. a country and its former colony).

   She wrote an essay expounding the tenets of Scottish separatism.

2. The practice of treating members of different societal groups in a politically, legally, or economically different manner.

   Apartheid was a government-enforced form of separatism in which people received unequal social benefits based on race.

Related terms

• separatist

Translations

separatism

• Arabic: اِنْفِصَالِيَّة f (infiṣāliyya), اِنْشِقَاقِيَّة f (inšiqāqiyya)
• Armenian: անջատականություն (hy) (anǰatakanutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: separatçılıq
• Belarusian: сепараты́зм m (sjeparatýzm)
• Bengali: বিচ্ছিন্নতাবাদ (bn) (bicchinnotabad)
• Bulgarian: сепарати́зъм (bg) m (separatízǎm)
• Catalan: separatisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分離主義／分离主义 (zh) (fēnlízhǔyì), 分裂主義／分裂主义 (zh) (fēnliězhǔyì)

• Czech: separatismus m
• Danish: separatisme
• Dutch: separatisme (nl) n
• Estonian: separatism (et)
• Finnish: separatismi (fi)
• French: séparatisme (fr) m
• Galician: separatismo (gl) m
• Georgian: სეპარატიზმი (seṗaraṭizmi)
• German: Separatismus (de) m
• Hebrew: בַּדלָנוּת (he) f (badlanút)
• Hindi: अलगाववाद m (algāvvād), पृथकतावाद m (pŕthaktāvād)
• Hungarian: szeparatizmus (hu)
• Italian: separatismo (it) m
• Japanese: 分離主義 (ぶんりしゅぎ, bunrishugi)
• Kazakh: жікшілдік (jıkşıldık)
• Korean: 분리주의 (bullijuui)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: جیاخوازی (cyaxwazî)

• Kyrgyz: сепаратизм (ky) (separatizm)
• Latvian: separātisms m
• Lithuanian: separatizmas m
• Macedonian: сепарати́зам m (separatízam)
• Malayalam: വിഘടനവാദം (vighaṭanavādaṁ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: separatisme

• Occitan: separatisme (oc) m
• Persian: جدایی‌خواهی (jodâyi-xâhi)
• Polish: separatyzm (pl) m
• Portuguese: separatismo m
• Russian: сепарати́зм (ru) m (separatízm)
• Scots: separatism
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сепаратизам m

  Roman: separatizam (sh) m

• Slovak: separatizmus m
• Slovene: separatizem m
• Spanish: separatismo m
• Swedish: separatism (sv) c
• Tajik: ҷудоихоҳӣ (judoyixohī)
• Thai: คตินิยมการแยกตัวออก
• Turkish: ayrılıkçılık (tr)
• Ukrainian: сепарати́зм m (separatýzm)
• Uzbek: separatizm (uz)
• Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa phân lập

See also

• apartheid
• segregation

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French séparatisme. By surface analysis, separat +‎ -ism.

Noun

separatism n (uncountable)

1. separatism

Declension

declension of separatism (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) separatism	separatismul
genitive/dative	(unui) separatism	separatismului
vocative	separatismule