communitarianism

English

Etymology tree

English communitarian

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.

English -ism

English communitarianism

communitarianism (countable and uncountable, plural communitarianisms)

(ethics) The group of doctrines that oppose excessive individualism in favour of a more community-based approach [from 1980s]
Antonym: individualism
- 2009 February 9, Madeleine Bunting, “The maverick ideas of red Toryism could give Cameron a potent edge”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:
  […] Tony Blair dallied with communitarianism in the mid-90s and was wont to quote the Quaker philosopher John Macmurray.

doctrine opposing execessive individualism