particularism

Noun

Meaning

A minute description; a detailed statement.

The doctrine of particular election.

Devotion to the interests of one's own kingdom or province rather than to those of the empire.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

space private special specific identity soul personality integrity privacy differentiation individualism confidential singularity individuality oneness
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Antonyms

public same standard international success community
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Hypernyms

direction focus focusing centering focal point focussing

Examples

Healthy patriotism is associated with robust particularism – petty provincialism, if you like – and certainly not with the deracinated globalism exhibited by our GI Joes and Janes. Ilana Mercer

To adjust the matter, the magistrates arranged a colloquy between Huber and Musculus (September 2, 1587), in which the former represented the universalism, the latter the particularism, of grace. Source: Internet

This war brings the gaze of the international proletariat back to the great political and economic connectedness of the world, and violently dissipates in our ranks the particularism, the pettiness of ideas that form in any period of political calm." Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

particularisation particularise particularised particularist particularistic particularistically