the naptivist has encouraged me to nap for 15 minutes after lunch. If my manager ask why I can share it boost my skills after I wake up.
by MellowMemes December 31, 2023
Get the naptivist mug.A way of mocking someone who uses excuses such as "stress being unhealthy," "proper amounts of sleep being important," and "meditation is needed to rest and reflect" to avoid doing work.
Person #1: "Why didn't Erica turn in the reports on time?"
Person #2: "She said her rest and well being was more important, so she meditated instead of doing actual work"
Person #1: "I don't know how we're gonna get any work done with all of these members of the Naptist Church
Person #2: "She said her rest and well being was more important, so she meditated instead of doing actual work"
Person #1: "I don't know how we're gonna get any work done with all of these members of the Naptist Church
by KEMMA SLAY June 26, 2016
Get the Naptist Church mug.Related Words
Mistaken belief that young folks who were born immersed in things digital are somehow in a state of grace and older folks are cursed by their age and lack of digital conditioning. Arrogant and insulting division of generations into different camps first proposed by Marc Prensky but unfounded on any survey data.
With an insulting tone worthy of the original American nativists who hated immigrants (especially Catholic ones), Marc Prensky speaks of pre-iPod humans (digital immigrants) contemptuously. This is simply digital nativism, a kind of generational prejudice that is ill founded and unsubstantiated.
by Songpoet November 1, 2007
Get the Digital nativism mug.The notion that Arabs are true natives of all the many countries they have colonized. In Egypt this manifests as denial of the indigenousness of Copts, in Algeria of Kabyle and other Berber peoples, in Iraq and Syria of Assyrians and Chaldeans, and in Israel this manifests as the slogan "Jesus was Palestinian."
The aim of Arab nativism is to simultaneously erase the many indigenous peoples of the MENA and assert that only the colonizers are truly indigenous.
by Yehe Shmeh Rabba Mevorach July 6, 2020
Get the Arab nativism mug.Beliefs and policies favoring native-born citizens over immigrants.
By the 1850's, nativism became an open political movement pledged to vote only for "native" Americans, to fight Catholicism, and to demand a 21-year naturalization period. (pg, 108,ISBN:0130418692)
by s. beyet June 24, 2005
Get the Nativism mug.Someone who stands for the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigration.
Labour: Everyone is UKIP are racist!
Nigel: No, UKIP care deeply for this country and are a group of Nativists
Nigel: No, UKIP care deeply for this country and are a group of Nativists
by PC_is_out_of_hand November 28, 2016
Get the Nativist mug.The opposite of optimistic. Used in conjunction with supporting an English Premier League club in it's most original form.
Shaun: I am seriously noptimistic about Southampton's chances this season.
Dawn: Yeah, they look in serious trouble this season.
Dawn: Yeah, they look in serious trouble this season.
by BigTin August 18, 2021
Get the noptimistic mug.