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say it: NAY-ti-viz-uhm
nativism is a noun meaning "the policy of perpetuating native cultures (in opposition to acculturation)". It is pronounced /ˈneɪtɪˌvɪzəm/ — NAY-ti-viz-uhm. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the policy of perpetuating native cultures (in opposition to acculturation)
(philosophy) the philosophical theory that some ideas are innate
philosophy
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nativism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.