Etymology

rattachism

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Today it means: An ideology calling for the French-speaking part of Belgium or Wallonia to secede from the state of Belgium and become part of France. Full definition →

French rattachisme
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  1. French · learned borrowing fromrattachisme
  2. French · learned borrowing fromrattachisme
  3. English todayrattachism

Semi-learned borrowing from French rattachisme. By surface analysis, French rattacher + English -ism.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.