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say it: NAY-ti-vist
nativist is an adjective and noun meaning "advocating the perpetuation of native societies". It carries 3 recorded senses.
advocating the perpetuation of native societies
“the old nativist prejudice against the foreign businessman”
“the nativistic faith preaches the old values”
of or relating to or advocating nativism
“nativist theories”
“the traditional controversy between the nativistic and empiristic theories”
a philosopher who subscribes to nativism
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 nativist 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.