communitarian

adjective

com·​mu·​ni·​tar·​i·​an kə-ˌmyü-nə-ˈter-ē-ən How to pronounce communitarian (audio)
: of or relating to social organization in small cooperative partially collectivist communities
communitarian noun

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The choice seems to be made in particular by individuals affiliated with strongly communitarian religious groups. Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2010 American culture has always been at once strongly libertarian, individualist and pluralist, yet also strongly communitarian, moralist and religious. Christopher Demuth, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022 This benign and even communitarian version of slave culture was by no means confined to historians born and bred in the South. Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022 The communitarian ideals of radical women’s groups faded from public memory, and feminism was glossed as a movement for female careers. Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022 See all Example Sentences for communitarian 

Word History

First Known Use

1840, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of communitarian was in 1840

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“Communitarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/communitarian. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.

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