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tribalistic

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Pertaining to tribalism.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 2024 Dec 06, Case Bryant, cited in: Gail Russell Chaddock and Jingnan Peng, Fairness and empathy: 2 politics writers on how they anchor their work, in The Christian Science Monitor At the time, I thought there couldn’t possibly be any similarities between what I did over there and here, but I actually did more and more start to recognize some of the same sort of tribalistic attitudes and fear based on ignorance about the other.

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History

Etymology

From tribal + -istic.