communitarian

Examples

• All

• The methods existing at that time ran counter to the communitarian traditions of the indigenous people.

  Academic text (1996)

• His concerts were enormous sing-alongs, albeit without the communitarian feeling usually associated with that activity.

  Fiction book (2001)

• So he also talks about communitarian values.

• Defensive measures against threats to such values are always appropriate in communitarian political systems.

  Academic text (1991)

• Foreigners have played a crucial role in the communitarian activities of the district.

  Academic text (1999)

• Instead, we have to look for what we are really looking for: traces of communitarian localism.

  Academic text (2017)

• Contemporary conditions are therefore not conducive to the communitarian goal of a secure sense of selfhood.

  Academic text (1991)

• Their grand goal of fixing the South from the ground up with communitarian participatory democracy was laudable.

  Academic text (2017)

• The Republican response made the contrast between communitarian and proprietary localism the center of the political debate.

  Academic text (2017)

• The Standing Rock Sioux encampment was a communitarian living structure: food, shelter, and healthcare were shared.

Synonyms

C

communal

vscommunitarian

9 3.7

Relating to the local government and services in a town

refers to community importance as social value rather than administrative matters

C

collectivist

vscommunitarian

3 7.1

Putting the group's needs before each person's needs

focuses on local community importance rather than broad group priority

C

collectivistic

vscommunitarian

1 8.1

Putting the group before the individual

emphasizes community importance and local shared responsibilities rather than broad group focus

C

communalistic

vscommunitarian

7.9

About living in a group where people share things and work together

promotes community importance generally rather than specific living arrangements

N

nonindividualistic

vscommunitarian

7.6

Putting the group's needs before each person's own wants

expresses positive priority of community values rather than merely opposing individualism

S

solidaristic

vscommunitarian

• Formal

7.8

People support each other and share benefits equally

values community importance broadly rather than only equal mutual support

Antonyms

S

self-reliant

13 4.5

Able to act and decide without help from others

I

individualistic

8 6.7

Preferring to act or think independently and be different

How Communitarian

collectivist

3 7.1

communitarian

2 7.6

communal

41 3.9

individualistic

1 7.2

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology