federalism

English

Alternative forms

• fœderalism (archaic)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French fédéralisme

Noun

federalism (countable and uncountable, plural federalisms)

1. A system of national government in which power is divided between a central authority and a number of regions with delimited self-governing authority.
2. Advocacy of such a system.
3. (theology) Covenantalism.

Derived terms

• federalist

Translations

system of government

• Catalan: federalisme m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 聯邦制／联邦制 (zh), 联邦制 (zh) (liánbāngzhì), 聯邦主義／联邦主义, 联邦主义 (liánbāngzhǔyì)

• Dutch: federalisme (nl) m
• Finnish: federalismi (fi)
• French: fédéralisme (fr) m
• Georgian: ფედერალიზმი (pederalizmi)
• German: Föderalismus (de) m
• Ido: federalismo (io)
• Indonesian: federalisme (id), perserikatan (id)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Irish: feidearálachas m
• Japanese: 連邦主義 (れんぽうしゅぎ, renpōshugi)
• Kapampangan: pederalismu
• Korean: 연방주의 (yeonbangjuui)
• Portuguese: federalismo (pt) m
• Romanian: federalism (ro) n
• Russian: федерали́зм (ru) m (federalízm)
• Serbo-Croatian: federalizam (sh) m
• Spanish: federalismo (es) m
• Tagalog: pederalismo