collectivistic

English

Etymology

From collectivist +‎ -ic.

Adjective

collectivistic (comparative more collectivistic, superlative most collectivistic)

1. Of or pertaining to collectivism.
   • 1890, Political Science Quarterly, volume 5, number 1, page 167:

     Public contributions, i.e. taxes, are only one form of value — collectivistic value.

   • 1895, The Citizen, page 398:

     It is, then, as a treatise of social forces, individualistic and collectivistic, in German literature that Francke's work must be tested, not as a history of the artistic form and content of that literature.

   • 2001, David Matsumoto, The Handbook of Culture and Psychology, page 395:

     People in individualistic cultures may be more concerned with distributive justice than people in collectivistic cultures because they have such clear-cut notions of individual equity.

Derived terms

• collectivistically