Tribalistic

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to tribalism.

    "2024 Dec 06, Case Bryant, cited in: Gail Russell Chaddock and Jingnan Peng, Fairness and empathy: 2 politics writers on how they anchor their work, in The Christian Science Monitor At the time, I thought there couldn’t possibly be any similarities between what I did over there and here, but I actually did more and more start to recognize some of the same sort of tribalistic attitudes and fear based on ignorance about the other."

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"2024 Dec 06, Case Bryant, cited in: Gail Russell Chaddock and Jingnan Peng, Fairness and empathy: 2 politics writers on how they anchor their work, in The Christian Science Monitor At the time, I thought there couldn’t possibly be any similarities between what I did over there and here, but I actually did more and more start to recognize some of the same sort of tribalistic attitudes and fear based on ignorance about the other."

Etymology

From tribal + -istic.

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