particularism

English

noun
Definitions
  • (theology) The principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation.
  • An exclusive focus on a particular group, area, sect etc.
  • (politics) The principle that individual states, races of a federation etc. may act independently of a central authority.

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Suffix from English particular.

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