separatist (redirected from Separatists)

sep·a·ra·tist  (spr--tst, spr-, sp-r-)

n.

1. One who secedes or advocates separation, especially from an established church; a sectarian or separationist.

2. One who advocates disjunction of a group from a larger group or political unit: Basque separatists.

3. One who advocates cultural, ethnic, or racial separation.

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sepa·ra·tism n.

sepa·ra·tist adj.

sepa·ra·tistic adj.

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separatist

Noun

a person who advocates the separation of his or her own group from an organization or country

separatism n

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	separatist - an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union) separationist church service, church - a service conducted in a house of worship; "don't be late for church" advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent - a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea white separatist - someone who advocates a society in which white people live separately from members of other races
Adj.	1.	separatist - having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction" breakaway, fissiparous independent - free from external control and constraint; "an independent mind"; "a series of independent judgments"; "fiercely independent individualism"