Definitions for "Nativist"
An advocate of nativism.
advocating the perpetuation of native societies; "the old nativist prejudice against the foreign businessman"; "the nativistic faith preaches the old values"- C.K.Kluckhohn
of or relating to or advocating nativism; "nativist theories"; "the traditional controversy between the nativistic and empiristic theories"
A nativist is someone like French mathematician and philosopher Rene Descartes (1596-1650) who believes we possess innate abilities at birth. These come to us by way of our genetics inherited from our biological parents.
a philosopher who subscribes to nativism