appropriative
Taking or setting apart for oneself; appropriating; constituting appropriation.
Adjective
- Taking or setting apart for oneself; appropriating; constituting appropriation.
- Unburdened by defensiveness, Ravel is able to figure the exotic in ways that are genuinely open to the energies of the other as well as appropriative of them. Those emergies find their culminating expression in the...
- It seeks to not homogenize or be appropriative of women of color, but even given this commitment, it does “turn women of color into something that can be used to further her own ideas.” White feminists end up painting...
- [...] pointing to the tourism industry's appropriation and marketisation of Indigenous cultural material. Decontextualised and simplistically displayed on a tourist's shirt, this particular reference to Indigenous...
Synonyms: appropriatory
Origin
Etymology tree English appropriate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English appropriative From appropriate + -ive.
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appropriatively appropriativeness culturally appropriative nonappropriative unappropriative