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identitarian

adj
/aɪˌdɛntɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/

Etymology

From identity + -arian, coined 1943 by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, from the 1970s onward reinforced by French identitaire, especially after the use of the term ensembliste-identitaire by Cornelius Castoriadis.

  1. derived from ταὐτότης — “sameness”
  2. derived from idemptitās,identitās
  3. derived from identité
  4. inherited from ydemptite
  5. suffixed as identitarian — “identity + arian”

Definitions

  1. Based on a notion of group identity

    Based on a notion of group identity; relating to the ideology of identitarianism.

    • "The revolution in the Vendée, where peasants and noblemen had risen against the identitarian terrorists of Paris" (p. 117)

  2. Relating to personal identity

    Relating to personal identity; as racial, gender, sexual, etc.

    • Sex between men is articulated as a casual act of “being free to be a man” that need not have any troubling gay identitarian consequences.

  3. One who supports the theory of identitarianism.

    • Recent surveys suggest that roughly 47 percent of Republicans are what you might call conservative universalists and maybe 40 percent are what you might call conservative white identitarians.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for identitarian. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA