separatism

English

Etymology

From separate +‎ -ism.

Noun

separatism (countable and uncountable, plural separatisms)

1. A theory or doctrine which supports a state of separation between organizations, institutions, or other societal groups (e.g. between church and state) or between different political jurisdictions (e.g. a country and its former colony).

   She wrote an essay expounding the tenets of Scottish separatism.

2. The practice of treating members of different societal groups in a politically, legally, or economically different manner.

   Apartheid was a government-enforced form of separatism in which people received unequal social benefits based on race.

Related terms

• separatist

Translations

theory or doctrine

Arabic: اِنْفِصَالِيَّة f (infiṣāliyya), اِنْشِقَاقِيَّة f (inšiqāqiyya) Armenian: անջատականություն (hy) (anǰatakanutʻyun) Azerbaijani: separatçılıq Belarusian: сепараты́зм m (sjeparatýzm) Bengali: বিচ্ছিন্নতাবাদ (bn) (bicchinnotabad) Bulgarian: сепарати́зъм (bg) m (separatízǎm) Catalan: separatisme m Chinese: Mandarin: 分離主義 / 分离主义 (zh) (fēnlízhǔyì), 分裂主義 / 分裂主义 (zh) (fēnliězhǔyì) Czech: separatismus m Danish: separatisme Dutch: separatisme (nl) n Estonian: separatism (et) Finnish: separatismi (fi) French: séparatisme (fr) m Galician: separatismo (gl) m Georgian: სეპარატიზმი (seṗaraṭizmi) German: Separatismus (de) m Hebrew: בַּדלָנוּת (he) f (badlanút) Hindi: अलगाववाद m (algāvvād), पृथकतावाद m (pŕthaktāvād) Hungarian: szeparatizmus (hu) Indonesian: separatisme (id) Italian: separatismo (it) m Japanese: 分離主義 (ja) (ぶんりしゅぎ, bunrishugi) Kazakh: жікшілдік (jıkşıldık) Korean: 분리주의 (bullijuui) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: جیاخوازی (cyaxwazî) Kyrgyz: сепаратизм (ky) (separatizm) Latvian: separātisms m Lithuanian: separatizmas m Macedonian: сепарати́зам m (separatízam) Malayalam: വിഘടനവാദം (vighaṭanavādaṁ) Norwegian: Bokmål: separatisme Occitan: separatisme (oc) m Persian: جدایی‌خواهی (jodâyi-xâhi) Polish: separatyzm (pl) m Portuguese: separatismo (pt) m Russian: сепарати́зм (ru) m (separatízm) Scots: separatism Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: сепаратизам m Roman: separatizam (sh) m Slovak: separatizmus m Slovene: separatizem m Spanish: separatismo m Swedish: separatism (sv) c Tajik: ҷудоихоҳӣ (judoyixohi) Thai: คตินิยมการแยกตัวออก Turkish: ayrılıkçılık (tr) Ukrainian: сепарати́зм m (separatýzm) Uzbek: separatizm (uz) Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa phân lập

practice of treating members of different societal groups in a different manner

Finnish: erottelu (fi)

See also

• apartheid
• secessionism
• segregation

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French séparatisme. By surface analysis, separat +‎ -ism.

Noun

separatism n (uncountable)

1. separatism

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	separatism	separatismul
genitive-dative	separatism	separatismului
vocative	separatismule