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nativism


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Nativism  \Na"tiv*ism\,  n. 
  1.  The  disposition  to  favor  the  native  inhabitants  of  a 
  country,  in  preference  to  immigrants  from  foreign 
  countries. 
 
  2.  (Philos.)  The  doctrine  of  innate  ideas,  or  that  the  mind 
  possesses  forms  of  thought  independent  of  sensation. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  nativism 
  n  1:  the  policy  of  perpetuating  native  cultures  (in  opposition  to 
  acculturation) 
  2:  the  philosophical  doctrine  that  some  ideas  are  innate 




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