SEPARATISM Synonyms
There are 7 hypernyms of the word separatism. (close relations)
Best Synonyms for SEPARATISM
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| autonomy | nounn | |||||
noun • immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence • personal independence | ||||||
| dissidence | nounn | |||||
noun • disagreement; especially disagreement with the government | ||||||
| division | verb, nounv, n | |||||
noun • an army unit large enough to sustain combat • one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole • the act or process of dividing • an administrative unit in government or business • discord that splits a group • a league ranked by quality • (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category • (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum • a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings • a group of ships of similar type • an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed • the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | ||||||
| independence | nounn | |||||
noun • a city in western Missouri; the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail • freedom from control or influence of another or others • the successful ending of the American Revolution | ||||||
| secession | nounn | |||||
noun • the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War • an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s • formal separation from an alliance or federation | ||||||
| self-determination | nounn | |||||
noun • government of a political unit by its own people • determination of one's own fate or course of action without compulsion | ||||||
| self-government | nounn | |||||
noun • government of a political unit by its own people | ||||||
| self-rule | nounn | |||||
noun • government of a political unit by its own people | ||||||
| sovereignty | nounn | |||||
noun • government free from external control • royal authority; the dominion of a monarch • the authority of a state to govern another state | ||||||
| segregation | nounn | |||||
noun • (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes • a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups • the act of segregating or sequestering | ||||||
| separationism | nounn | |||||
noun • advocacy of a policy of strict separation of church and state | ||||||
