The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nativistic \Na`tiv*is"tic\, a. Relating to nativism.
Wiktionary
a. In agreement with the philosophy of nativism.
WordNet
adj. advocating the perpetuation of native societies; "the old nativist prejudice against the foreign businessman"; "the nativistic faith preaches the old values"- C.K.Kluckhohn [syn: nativist]
of or relating to or advocating nativism; "nativist theories"; "the traditional controversy between the nativistic and empiristic theories" [syn: nativist]
Usage examples of "nativistic".
Tsubouchi Shoyo and Futabatei Shimei were thus taking the pioneer steps in creating a new fiction on Western lines, other writers, motivated in part by the strongly conservative, nativistic trend of the 1880s, sought to revitalize Japanese literature by means of its own tradition.
Crisis cultures, cargo cults, nativistic movements, messianics: everyone on this road-strewn surface survives the present by naming it a station, an inscrutable detour on the way to the next age, the next image, the next frame.