Meanings
adjectivenationistic (comparative more nationistic, superlative most nationistic)
comparative more nationistic · superlative most nationistic
- human sciencesOf or relating to nationism.
Both nationistic and nationalistic government policies can affect minority language status: it can be expensive and impractical to govern in multiple languages, particularly when those languages are spoken by small numbers of people, […]
2003, Suzanne Wertheim, Linguistic Purism, Language Shift, and Contact-induced Change in Tatar (dissertation), page 22
Origin
From nation + -istic; see nationism.
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