civilizational
Adjective
Meaning
civilizational (not comparable)
Pertaining to or arising from civilization
There are various civilizational factors at work.
Synonyms
Examples
According to Huntington, a torn country must meet three requirements to redefine its civilizational identity.
Concerning this region, Huntington departs from Kitsikis contending that a civilizational fault line exists between the two dominant yet differing religions ( Eastern Orthodoxy and Sunni Islam ), hence a dynamic of external conflict.
He focuses on the “civilizational factor” ignored by “the pro-Portuguese Gulbenkein Foundation graduates” like C. R. de Silva and Tikiri Abeysinghe and broadens his scope of studies to include prime sociological factors.
We want to believe that we are acting in the noble, moral cause of protecting civilizational norms against barbarism.
Both countries were on the silk Road through which civilizational exchanges took place for centuries.
In the Intermediate Region, therefore, one cannot speak of a civilizational clash or external conflict, but rather an internal conflict, not for cultural domination, but for political succession.