communitarian

American  

[kuh-myoo-ni-tair-ee-uhn] / kəˌmyu nɪˈtɛər i ən /

noun

1. a member of a communistic community.

2. an advocate of such a community.

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communitarian British  

/ kəˌmjuːnɪˈtɛərɪən /

noun

1. a member of a communist community

2. an advocate of communalism

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Etymology

Origin of communitarian

First recorded in 1835–45; communit(y) + -arian

Example Sentences

He ably navigates contentious personalities, shifting alliances and tense rivalries among men and women who, although they shared views about slavery, tussled over conventional politics, communitarian living, marriage and pacifism between the 1820s and the Civil War.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr. Woodard also identifies two major regions that are “passively communitarian.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The prime minister had been criticised from within his own party for the comments, with Labour peer Harriet Harman telling the Electoral Dysfunction podcast that he "should have actually explained 'look, this is what we're getting at. It's a communitarian message, it's about neighbourliness, it's about integration'."

From BBC

They may instead internalize this stress and subsume the political into the personal in a manner that isolates them further, rather than bringing them together in a more healthy communitarian fashion with the goal of solving shared political and social problems.

From Salon

Lastly, you argue they demonstrated a "spiritually communitarian worldview."

From Salon