Inclusivism

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A viewpoint that champions the inclusion of varied identities and perspectives, fostering harmony among diverse cultural, social, and religious groups
2. An approach emphasizing the acceptance of all individuals by promoting engagement and understanding among different communities to enhance social cohesion
3. A principle that supports embracing a wide range of cultural, social, or religious identities to create unity and acceptance

Etymology: Inclusivism is a plain formation: the English adjective "inclusive" with the suffix "-ism", which marks a doctrine, principle, or system of belief. The "-ism" ending came into English through Old French and Latin from Ancient Greek "-ismos", which turned verbs into nouns of action or state, so the suffix carries a long history of its own before it reached this word. The adjective "inclusive" has the more interesting path. Its root is Latin "includere", "to shut in", built from "in-" and "claudere", "to close", the same stem that gives English "close", "closet" and "clause". Medieval Latin formed "inclusivus" from the past participle "inclusus", and Middle French took it up as "inclusif" before English adopted it as "inclusive". So the adjective began with the physical sense of shutting something in, and only later came to mean taking things in as part of a whole.

Synonyms: tolerance, acceptance, openness, diversity, integration

Antonyms: exclusivism, intolerance, discrimination, segregation, seclusion