Other Words from particularism

particularist \ pər-ˈti-k(yə-)lə-rist

, pə- also pär- \ noun or adjective

particularistic \ pər-ˌti-k(yə-)lə-ˈri-stik

, pə- also pär- \ adjective

Examples of particularism in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web But French universalism has become its own very specific particularism. — Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2021 Just as King has been shorn of his political radicalism—his democratic socialism, his anti-imperialism—his religious particularism is too often ignored. — Matthew Sitman, The New Republic, 15 Apr. 2021 The task for our time is to preserve international stability while making a sustainable place for the domestic particularisms without which even the most rational of structures will collapse upon itself for want of popular legitimacy. — A. Wess Mitchell, National Review, 2 Apr. 2020 In the twenty-first century, examples of this modern particularism are rife. — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020 Her sense of humor has a rooted particularism, and her comic timing is sharp. — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2019 The AfD has exploited the power of eastern particularism. — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019 But are particularism and universalism our only options? — Martin Peretz, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2018 Over time, elision became neglect: Partial articulations of a world of peoples were conflated with the very toxic particularism they had been created to realistically combat. — Martin Peretz, WSJ, 8 May 2018 See More

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