primordialism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Devotion to, or persistence in, conditions of the primordial state.
  2. The belief that each individual has a single inborn ethnic identity independent of historical processes.

Word forms

primordialism primordialisms

Etymology

From primordial + -ism.

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