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Definition of Nativistic

1. Adjective. Advocating the perpetuation of native societies. "The nativistic faith preaches the old values"

2. Adjective. Of or relating to or advocating nativism. "The traditional controversy between the nativistic and empiristic theories"

Definition of Nativistic

1. a. Relating to nativism.

Definition of Nativistic

1. Adjective. In agreement with the philosophy of nativism. ¹

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Definition of Nativistic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nativistic

native speaker native speakers native species native sulfur native sulphur native support native wit natively nativeness nativenesses

natives nativisation nativism nativisms nativist nativistic nativists nativities nativity nativity play

nativization natka natl. natlang natlangs natraemia natremia natrexone hydrochloride natrian natriferic

Literary usage of Nativistic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Outlines of Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt, Charles Hubbard Judd (1902)
"It is much more proper to point out the opposition which really exists as the opposition between nativistic and genetic theories. Genetic theories may then ..."

2. The Elements of Psychology: A Text-book by David Jayne Hill (1888)
"(1) The Intuitional, or Nativistic, Theory assumes that space is intuitively known at the very beginning of our perceptive life. This theory has been held ..."

3. A History of Psychology by Otto Klemm (1914)
"(c) The Later Nativistic Theories A more exact knowledge of different phenomena of binocular vision from the middle of last century onward made a revision ..."

4. Hermann Von Helmholtz by Leo Koenigsberger (1906)
"But the nativistic hypotheses in the first place do not explain anything ; they only assume that the fact to be explained exists ; in the second place, ..."

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