English Dictionary

segregationalism

noun

(rare) Segregationism; the support or practice of segregating racial, ethnic, or religious groups. / (by extension) The isolation of a person or group of people to achieve a specific end.

Segregationalism is a harmful ideology that promotes the separation of different racial or ethnic groups.

意味（1）

(rare) Segregationism; the support or practice of segregating racial, ethnic, or religious groups.

Disharmony, disunity and segregationalism reign supreme in the society of the Brahmanic Hindus at the expense of unity, integration and harmony.

意味（2）

(by extension) The isolation of a person or group of people to achieve a specific end.

Segregationalism is being much carried out. Patient having passed through pneumonic deliriums, is now comatic and in articulo mortis.

意味（3）

(linguistics) The stance that linguistic signs act (or approach acting) as fixed codes with invariant pairings of form and meaning.

The point of criticism under scrutiny squares with a possible reading of Roy Harris (e.g. 1996); every attempt to posit an abstract language amounts to 'segregationalism', isolating verbal language from other phenomena with which it may turn out to have essential links.

意味（4）

(by extension) The conflation of sign and meaning.

Sam's error is to conflate appearance and identity, to presume that a silver coat, black stilettos and red hair signify the person (Allie) he recognises from that collection of signs. Whilst discussing the tacit segregationalism of Allie, a single white female, placing an advertisement specifying that she is 'seeking the same', Lynda Hart comments how she also 'pays an exorbitant price for failing to recognise the terrors of sameness.