English-Dutch translations for separatism

• separatisme
  Dat is een aansporing tot separatisme. That is an incitement to separatism.
  De Oeigoeren worden nu van separatisme beticht. The Uighurs are currently being accused of separatism.
  Dat is geen separatisme, maar een uitdrukking van de wil om te leven! That is not separatism, that is an expression of the will to live.

Definition of separatism

• A theory or doctrine which supports a state of separation between organizations, institutions, or other societal groups or between different political jurisdictions (e.g. a country and its former colony
• The practice of treating members of different societal groups in a politically, legally, or economically different manner

Examples

• She wrote an essay expounding the tenets of Scottish separatism.
• Apartheid was a government-enformed form of separatism in which people received unequal social benefits based on race.

Related words

• separatist
• separatistic
• separatistically
• antiseparatist
• separatist group
• racial separatism