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nativism
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Nativism \Na"tiv*ism\, n.
1. The disposition to favor the native inhabitants of a
country, in preference to immigrants from foreign
countries.
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2. (Philos.) The doctrine of innate ideas, or that the mind
possesses forms of thought independent of sensation.
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