Identitarianism
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Politics based on social identity. countable, uncountable
""The radical feminists always wanted in their frantic identitarianism to eliminate the difference between the sexes" (p. 96)"
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of identitarianism (“far-right political movement and philosophy”). alt-of, uncountable
- 3 Politics based on social identity.; A far-right political movement and philosophy that seeks to preserve European ethnic and cultural identity against the perceived threats of immigration, Islam, and globalization. capitalized, countable, often, uncountable
"Needless to add, this augurs badly for the future of the GRECE’s identitarianism, for it now tacitly acknowledges the right of non-Europeans to occupy and partition European lands."
- 4 The set of ideas arising from an ontology of identity. countable, uncountable
Example
More examples""The radical feminists always wanted in their frantic identitarianism to eliminate the difference between the sexes" (p. 96)"
Etymology
From identitarian + -ism, 1943.
More for "identitarianism"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.