identitarian means Based on a notion of group identity; relating to the ideology of identitarianism. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 82 out of 100.
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IDENTITARIAN — [Adjective] Relating to a political ideology that elevates a specific group identity—ethnic, cultural, or racial—as the paramount lens for social organization and political action. From English identity (from Latin identitas, "sameness") + the suffix -arian ("advocate of"), coined in 1943; later reinforced by French identitaire. Unlike "universalist" (which champions abstract rights presumed to inhere in all individuals) or "cosmopolitan" (which envisions a borderless world of blended selves), identitarian politics is an assertion of the tribal "we" against a homogenizing or threatening "they." It is the scent of a particular soil said to be bound in the blood, the folk festival repurposed as a bulwark, and the historical grievance polished into a weapon—a fortress mentality that mistakes a map of ancestral claims for a blueprint to the future.
adj
- Based on a notion of group identity; relating to the ideology of identitarianism.“"The revolution in the Vendée, where peasants and noblemen had risen against the identitarian terrorists of Paris" (p. 117)”
- Relating to personal identity; as racial, gender, sexual, etc.“Sex between men is articulated as a casual act of “being free to be a man” that need not have any troubling gay identitarian consequences.”
noun
- One who supports the theory of identitarianism.“Recent surveys suggest that roughly 47 percent of Republicans are what you might call conservative universalists and maybe 40 percent are what you might call conservative white identitarians.”