Separatism Definition

sepərətizəm
noun
A condition or the advocacy of political, religious, or racial separation.
Webster's New World

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.
Wiktionary

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

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

Singular:
separatism
Plural:
separatisms

Separatism Sentence Examples

  • After the execution of Greenwood, Barrow and the ex-Puritan Penry (a recent recruit to Separatism), in the spring of 1593, it seemed to some that Separatism was " in effect extinguished."

  • It worries that military action would create a power vacuum, destabilize the region and encourage separatism among Turkish citizens of Kurdish origin.

  • The second is related to indigenous terrorist movements engaging in terrorism to promote separatism or an extreme ideology " .

  • They too reject separatism and also any separate legislative assembly.

  • Moscow worries that separatism inside Russia and radical Islamic movements beyond their borders might threaten stability in Southern Russia.

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