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Tribalism

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The organization, culture, or beliefs of a tribe.

n. A strong feeling of identity with and loyalty to one's tribe or group.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The condition of being tribal

n. A feeling of identity and loyalty to one's tribe

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The state of existing in tribes; also, tribal feeling; tribal prejudice or exclusiveness; tribal peculiarities or characteristics.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The state of existing in separate tribes; tribal relation or feeling.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the state of living together in tribes

n. the beliefs of a tribal society

Word Usage

"Ameri says it is Gaddafi's regime that introduced the use of the term "tribalism", and did so to "crush the confidence of those in their own western Libya cities" as well as to "confuse outsiders into believing that the Gaddafi regime is all that's holding together a fractured and disunited people"."

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state belief

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