Nativity vs Nativism - What's the difference?
nativity | nativism |
(also with capital initial) The birth of Jesus.
(Christianity) The festival celebrating the birth of Jesus; Christmas Day.
(astrology) Someone's birth considered as a means of astrology; a horoscope associated with a person's birth.
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(chiefly, US) a policy of favoring native-born inhabitants over immigrants
the policy of perpetuating the culture of the natives of a colonised country
(philosophy) the doctrine that some skills or abilities are innate and not learned
As nouns the difference between nativity and nativism
is that nativity is (christianity) the birth of jesus as described in the gospels of matthew and luke while nativism is (chiefly|us) a policy of favoring native-born inhabitants over immigrants.nativity
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(nativities)- Accordingly […] he was careful, as befitted a Fellow of the Royal Society, to note the exact nativity of his subjects whenever it could be discovered; in this way he hoped to make possible a scientific comparison of the course of human life with the astrological circumstances of its inception, and ths to arrive at a more exact astrology.
