Meanings
- uncountablePronatalism; an ideology in favor of childbearing.
Many of the speakers and attendees see natalism as a way of reversing these changes.
2024 April 28, Gaby Del Valle, “The Far Right’s Campaign to Explode the Population”, in POLITICO, archived from the original on 17 Aug 20241 more example
Falling birth rates are being met in many nations with a backlash: in China, Poland, Hungary and elsewhere, natalism is making a comeback, and the line between policies that are ‘pro-family’ (benefits and incentives) and those that are ‘anti-woman’ (abortion bans and the rescinding of workplace rights) is skin-thin.
2019 March 28, Sarah Ditum, “Mum's the Word”, in Literary Review
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵenh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵn̥h₁tós
- Proto-Italic*gnātos
- Latingnātus
- Latinnātus
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Latinnātālis
- Middle Englishnatal
- Englishnatal
- Englishnatalism
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Cite this entry
natalism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/natalism
“natalism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/natalism. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “natalism,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/natalism.
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