communalism

1. 1.

   the practice of communal living and common ownership

   Broadergroup action
2. 2.

   loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole

   Broadercommitment

Other forms of communalism

plural

communalisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about communalism

What does communalism mean?

communalism means "the practice of communal living and common ownership". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in communalism?

communalism has 4 syllables: com-mu-na-lism. The stress falls on "mu".

Is communalism a common word?

communalism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.