particularism

English

Etymology

From particular +‎ -ism, after French particularisme.

Noun

particularism (countable and uncountable, plural particularisms)

1. An exclusive focus on a particular area, group, sect, etc.
2. (Christianity, Judaism, theology) The principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation.

   Synonym: (obsolete) particularity

3. (politics) The principle that individual states, races of a federation, etc., may act independently of a central authority.
   • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 221:

     Despite the dominance of Castile and the stream of centralizing measures flowing from the new capital in Madrid, Aragonese particularism continued to make itself felt right up to the early eighteenth century.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French particularisme.

Noun

particularism n (uncountable)

1. particularism

Declension

declension of particularism (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) particularism	particularismul
genitive/dative	(unui) particularism	particularismului
vocative	particularismule