particularist

English

Etymology

From particular +‎ -ist, after French particulariste.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pəˈtɪkjʊləɹɪst/

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.

   Synonym: partisan

   • 1994 April 7, Edward Luttwak, “Why Fascism is the Wave of the Future”, in London Review of Books‎^[1], volume 16, number 07, →ISSN:

     And what does the moderate Left have to offer? Only more redistribution, more public assistance, and particularist concern for particular groups that can claim victim status, from the sublime peak of elderly, handicapped, black lesbians down to the merely poor.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 272:

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

Antonyms

• universalist

Related terms

• particularistic

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French particulariste.

Noun

particularist m (plural particulariști)

1. particularist

Declension

Declension of particularist

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) particularist	particularistul	(niște) particulariști	particulariștii
genitive/dative	(unui) particularist	particularistului	(unor) particulariști	particulariștilor
vocative	particularistule		particulariștilor