nonacculturative
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not acculturative; preventing or avoiding acculturation.
Example Sentences
- "The authors conclude that the adaptive, nonacculturative elements of family organization, in the last analysis, are likely to persist just to the extent that prejudice, discrimination, and economic disadvantage remain the lot of the central-city Black families."
- "The pressures of the 1820s were nonacculturative, for they placed little strain on the evolving friendship of Dakota and white leaders despite the troubles of 1827."
- "This scheme, however, equates the sacred with the nonacculturative tradition and does not account for ways that some Ojibwe people have refused to fix what they consider sacred to particular, especially pre-Christian, forms."
- "For example, Zhou and Bankston's (1996) study on Vietnamese youth reveals that intense participation in Vietnamese community activities (which are nonacculturative in the classical view) may actually facilitate assimilation into American society."
Etymology
From non- + acculturative.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more nonacculturative (comparative)
most nonacculturative (superlative)