collectivistic

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adjective

Of or pertaining to collectivism.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

adjectivecollectivistic (comparative more collectivistic, superlative most collectivistic)

comparative more collectivistic · superlative most collectivistic

  1. Of or pertaining to collectivism.

    Public contributions, i.e. taxes, are only one form of value — collectivistic value.

    1890, Political Science Quarterly, volume 5, number 1, page 167
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    It is, then, as a treatise of social forces, individualistic and collectivistic, in German literature that Francke's work must be tested, not as a history of the artistic form and content of that literature.

    1895, The Citizen, page 398

    People in individualistic cultures may be more concerned with distributive justice than people in collectivistic cultures because they have such clear-cut notions of individual equity.

    2001, David Matsumoto, The Handbook of Culture and Psychology, page 395

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivesubscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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Chicago

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