nativistic Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective advocating the perpetuation of native societies
    nativist.
    • the old nativist prejudice against the foreign businessman
    • the nativistic faith preaches the old values"- C.K.Kluckhohn
  2. adjective of or relating to or advocating nativism
    nativist.
    • nativist theories
    • the traditional controversy between the nativistic and empiristic theories

WordNet


Na`tiv*is"tic adjective
Definitions
  1. Relating to nativism.

Webster 1913