civilizationism

English

Etymology

From civilization +‎ -ism.

Noun

civilizationism (uncountable)

  1. An ideology that highlights a perceived threat to a civilization from external influence.
    • 2017 December 6, Rogers Brubaker, “The New Language of European Populism”, in brubaker.scholar.ss.ucla.edu‎[1], page 2:
      The new civilizationism is a paradoxical combination of “identitarian” Christianity, secularism, philo-Semitism, Islamophobia, and even some elements of liberalism such as support for gender equality and gay rights.
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