Primordialismとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

primordialism (countable and uncountable, plural primordialisms)

1. Devotion to, or persistence in, conditions of the primordial state.
   • 1874-1896, Herbert Spencer, Principles of Sociology

     Yet another indication of primordialism may be named.

2. The belief that each individual has a single inborn ethnic identity independent of historical processes.

参照

• “primordialism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.