Home › Words › P › particularistparticularist/pəˈtɪkjʊləɹɪst/particularist means adhering to particularism.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, particularist ranks #29,380 of 42,752 for Qualifying.particularist is pronounced /pəˈtɪkjʊləɹɪst/.EtymologyFrom particular + -ist, after French particulariste.adjAdhering to particularism.Showing excessive devotion to one's own region, nation, party etc.nounOne who holds to particularism.e.g.“On this point there was no difference between mercantilists and feudalists, between crowned planners and vested interests, between centralizing bureaucrats and conservative particularists.” — 1957 [1944], Karl Polanyi, chapter 6, in The Great Transformation, Beacon Press: Boston, page 70:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).