exclusionism

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English

Etymology

From exclusion +‎ -ism.

Noun

exclusionism (countable and uncountable, plural exclusionisms)

  1. The quality of being exclusionist.
    • 2009 January 25, Ethan Bronner, “The Bullets in My In-Box”, in New York Times:
      But go anywhere else in the Middle East and Zionism stands for theft, oppression, racist exclusionism.
  2. A policy or ideology that favors exclusion of some individuals or groups from a nation, sect, etc.
    • 1859, J.B. Heard, “Prize essay on Christianity in India”, in Dublin University Magazine, volume LIII, number CCCXVII, page 529:
      The true explanation of the rise of the traditional policy we believe to be commercial jealousy, which blossomed and burgeoned out into religious exclusionism.
    • 1942, Benoy Sarkar, “The sociology of ‘Asia for Asians’”, in Calcutta Review, volume LXXXIV, number 1, page 48:
      Exclusionism, then, cannot be an item of the configuration “Asia for Asians,” in economic activities or cultural achievements. It is in political relations, however, that exclusionism is the supreme reality.