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say it: SEP-ur-uh-tiz-uhm
separatism is a noun meaning "a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups
a disposition toward schism and secession from a larger group; the principles and practices of separatists
“separatism is a serious problem in Quebec”
“demands for some form of separatism on grounds of religion have been perceived as a threat to mainstream education”
advocacy of a policy of strict separation of church and state
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 separatism 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.