communitarian

adjective

com·mu·ni·tar·i·an kə-ˌmyü-nə-ˈter-ē-ən

: of or relating to social organization in small cooperative partially collectivist communities

communitarian noun

communitarianism

kə-ˌmyü-nə-ˈter-ē-ə-ˌni-zəm

noun

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The choice seems to be made in particular by individuals affiliated with strongly communitarian religious groups. —

Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Oct. 2010 American culture has always been at once strongly libertarian, individualist and pluralist, yet also strongly communitarian, moralist and religious. —

Christopher Demuth, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022 This benign and even communitarian version of slave culture was by no means confined to historians born and bred in the South. —

Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2022 The communitarian ideals of radical women’s groups faded from public memory, and feminism was glossed as a movement for female careers. —

Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2022 See all Example Sentences for communitarian