particularistic
- adjective
- /pərˌtɪkjəˈlɛrɪstɪk/
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particularista
- The new policy was criticized for focusing too much on particularistic interests rather than the common good.
- particularistic interests
- particularistic criterion
- particularistic traditions
Examples
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The president has increasingly needed to arrange particularistic deals and make large concessions.
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The one important difference is that the details of tax policy are more particularistic than monetary policy.
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We should not allow society just to be the struggle of particularistic interest, right?
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For that reason, we distinguish every reform according to whether they have a particularistic or general scope.
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On the other hand, particularistic criteria may mean firing with no chance to prove oneself.
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The military increasingly accepts the legitimacy of particularistic interests and is less disturbed by civilian politics.
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Just like cultural pluralism, it appears that some music educators already accept a cultural particularistic approach to multicultural music education.
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Second, some qualitative researchers are more interested in documenting particularistic findings than universalistic findings.
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Once faith in national regeneration is lost, privatism and preoccupation with short-term particularistic gain become the norm.
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Occupying a more marginalized position in Transylvania, Saxon nationalists developed a particularistic concept of Germanness by the mid-nineteenth century.
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
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7.7
About a religious or political group and showing strong support for its beliefs
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8.1
A narrow view that cares only about local matters
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8.5
Thinking one's own people or culture are better than others
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8.8
Supporting one religious or ethnic group in ways that can cause division
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8.5
Supporting rules that keep certain people from joining a group
Showing strong loyalty to one group and causing conflict with other groups
Putting a group's needs before a person's own needs
Accepting only one group or idea and not allowing other views
Treating people from one ethnic group better or worse than others
Relating to the idea that a nation should belong to one ethnic group
Giving more importance to local needs than to national ones
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
particularistic = particular (transparent) = particular + istic
The suffix '-istic' is commonly used to form adjectives meaning 'related to' or 'characteristic of', making the transformation clear.
Etymology
The word particularistic comes from particular, which in turn comes from part meaning 'a piece' or 'a small group'. So to be particularistic is to care mostly about one part or group rather than the whole community, which explains its modern sense of favoring a specific group.