Separatism Definition

sepərətizəm
noun
A condition or the advocacy of political, religious, or racial separation.
Webster's New World

A theory or doctrine which supports a state of separation between organizations, institutions, or other societal groups (e.g. between church and state) or between different political jurisdictions (e.g. a country and its former colony).

She wrote an essay expounding the tenets of Scottish separatism.
Wiktionary

The practice of treating members of different societal groups in a politically, legally, or economically different manner.

Apartheid was a government-enformed form of separatism in which people received unequal social benefits based on race.
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Singular:
separatism
Plural:
separatisms

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