collectivistic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.47 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to collectivism.
Example Sentences
- "Public contributions, i.e. taxes, are only one form of value — collectivistic value."
- "It is, then, as a treatise of social forces, individualistic and collectivistic, in German literature that Francke's work must be tested, not as a history of the artistic form and content of that literature."
- "People in individualistic cultures may be more concerned with distributive justice than people in collectivistic cultures because they have such clear-cut notions of individual equity."
Etymology
From collectivist + -ic.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more collectivistic (comparative)
most collectivistic (superlative)