Identitarian
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who supports the theory of identitarianism.
"Recent surveys suggest that roughly 47 percent of Republicans are what you might call conservative universalists and maybe 40 percent are what you might call conservative white identitarians."
- 1 Based on a notion of group identity; relating to the ideology of identitarianism. not-comparable
""The revolution in the Vendée, where peasants and noblemen had risen against the identitarian terrorists of Paris" (p. 117)"
- 2 Relating to personal identity; as racial, gender, sexual, etc. not-comparable
"Sex between men is articulated as a casual act of “being free to be a man” that need not have any troubling gay identitarian consequences."
Example
More examples""The revolution in the Vendée, where peasants and noblemen had risen against the identitarian terrorists of Paris" (p. 117)"
Etymology
From identity + -arian, coined 1943 by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, from the 1970s onward reinforced by French identitaire, especially after the use of the term ensembliste-identitaire by Cornelius Castoriadis.
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