nativism

About 0.38 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A policy of favoring native-born inhabitants over immigrants.
2. noun The policy of perpetuating the culture of the natives of a colonised country.
3. noun A cultural element that is native to a colonised country.
4. noun The doctrine that some skills or abilities are innate and not learned.
5. noun A theory that some knowledge of grammar is innate.

Similar words

empiricism immigrationism antinativism reservationism native-speakerism antinationalism nonimportation usonianism indigenism pronationalist

Often followed by

and in was of is that as to had

Word family

nativisms nativist nativistic nativists