particularist

Examples

• All

• In the particularist analysis, the nation has five cultures: African American, Asian American, European American, Latino/Hispanic, and Native American.

  Academic text (1990)

• The reality was not unity, but a mass of divided cities, lordships, and towns, dominated by particularist sentiments and local interests.

  Academic text (2018)

• By and large, these have been valuable, but their appeal is particularist, to particular groups rather than universal.

  Academic text (2002)

• For another, it is precisely in the name of liberty and justice that the particularist demands have been made and met.

  Academic text (1991)

• In other words, American universalism has a particularist root and probably cannot survive without it.

  Academic text (1991)

• Second, there are the regional or particularist forms of nationalism aimed at integrating people within fixed and newly constructed nation-states.

  Academic text (1995)

• I tend to view the Left/Right divide as a difference between Universalist and Particularist worldviews.

  Blog text (24)

• Their successors, however, identified more with particularist strains in Judaism and its historical claims to all of the land of Israel, and were more likely committed to democracy as an ideology.

  Academic text (1993)

• The result, however, has come fairly quickly and decisively: a shattering of the old consensual understanding of American history into a thousand particularist pieces, without any new synthesis to take its place.

  Academic text (1993)

• However, notwithstanding the reinvention of precolonial empires like Mali, Ghana, and Zimbabwe, nationalist parties came to be dominated by particularist concerns.

  Academic text (1993)

Synonyms

P

particularized

vsparticularist

1 8.2

Made for one person or situation, not general

gives importance to single cases rather than general rules

P

personalistic

vsparticularist

• Formal

1 8.0

Giving one leader and their close friends more power than rules

prioritizes specific situations or circumstances over personal ties

Antonyms

G

generalist

9 5.5

A person who knows and works in many different areas

Surface Forms

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Etymology