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Webster 1913 Edition
Nativism
Na′tiv-ism
,Noun.
1.
The disposition to favor the native inhabitants of a country, in preference to immigrants from foreign countries.
2.
(Philos.)
The doctrine of innate ideas, or that the mind possesses forms of thought independent of sensation.
Definition 2024
nativism
nativism
English
Noun
nativism (countable and uncountable, plural nativisms)
- (chiefly US) A policy of favoring native-born inhabitants over immigrants.
- The policy of perpetuating the culture of the natives of a colonised country.
- (philosophy) The doctrine that some skills or abilities are innate and not learned.