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Found 2 hits - Term: nativism, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
nativism \na"tivism\, n.
   1. the disposition to favor the native inhabitants of a
      country, in preference to immigrants from foreign
      countries.
      1913 webster

   2. philos. the doctrine of innate ideas, or that the mind
      possesses forms of thought independent of sensation.
      1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
nativism
     n 1: the policy of perpetuating native cultures in opposition to
          acculturation
     2: philosophy the philosophical theory that some ideas are
        innate


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