nativisme
French, noun\na.ti.vizm\
nativisme is spelled N-A-T-I-V-I-S-M-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 40 million words in written French, the 200,689th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Nativisme is a French masculine noun meaning “nativism” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Idéologie ou courant politique qui valorise les natifs d’un pays et s’oppose aux immigrants, perçus comme une…”.
What does nativisme mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinenativism
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Idéologie ou courant politique qui valorise les natifs d’un pays et s’oppose aux immigrants, perçus comme une menace pour l’identité nationale ou culturelle. 2. Théorie selon laquelle certaines structures cognitives, comme la perception de l’espace ou du temps, sont innées et non acquises par l’expérience.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of nativisme
- nativismes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce nativisme?
- \na.ti.vizm\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to nativisme
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is nativisme in French?
nativisme appears about once in every 40 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).