UNIVERSALISTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does universalistic mean? 

• UNIVERSALISTIC (adjective)
  The adjective UNIVERSALISTIC has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to or tending toward universalism

2. of or relating to the whole

  Familiarity information: UNIVERSALISTIC used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNIVERSALISTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or tending toward universalism

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

universalist; universalistic

Domain category:

divinity; theology (the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth)

Pertainym:

universalism (the theological doctrine that all people will eventually be saved)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or relating to the whole

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

whole (all of something including all its component elements or parts)