Communalism

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  • noun. Belief in or practice of communal ownership, as of goods and property.
  • noun. Strong devotion to the interests of one's own minority or ethnic group rather than those of society as a whole.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The theory of government by communes or corporations of towns and districts, adopted by many republicans in France and elsewhere; the doctrine that every commune, or at least every important city commune, should be virtually an independent state in itself, and the nation merely a federation of such states.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A French theory of government which holds that commune should be a kind of independent state, and the national government a confederation of such states, having only limited powers. It is advocated by advanced French republicans; but it should not be confounded with communism.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The communal ownership of property
  • noun. Any social system based around a community
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the practice of communal living and common ownership
  • noun. loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole
    • Word Usage
    "This communalism is a canker: whether practised by one colour or another it is to be strongly condemned."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    allegiance  commitment  dedication  group action  loyalty  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    atomism  bossiness  collectivism  determinist  diety  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    socialist  
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