Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Devotion, especially excessive or undiscriminating devotion, to the interests or culture of a particular nation-state.
- noun The belief that nations will benefit from acting independently rather than collectively, emphasizing national rather than international goals.
- noun The belief that a particular cultural or ethnic group constitutes a distinct people deserving of political self-determination.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun National spirit or aspirations; devotion to the nation; desire for national unity, independence, or prosperity.
- noun Specifically, in Ireland, the political program of the party that agitates for more or less complete separation from Great Britain.
- noun An idiom or a phrase peculiar to a mation; a national trait or peculiarity.
- noun The conduct of all business by the public for the benefit of the public; the substitution of public for private control of all business.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being national; national attachment; nationality.
- noun An idiom, trait, or character peculiar to any nation.
- noun National independence; the principles of the Nationalists.
- noun A devotion to one's country; patriotism
- noun The policy of advocating the independence of one's country.
- noun The policy of advocating the interests of one's own country exclusively, regardless of effects of a country's actions on other countries.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Patriotism ; the idea of supporting one's country and culture. - noun Support for the creation of a sovereign
nation (which does not currently exist). - noun
Jingoism ; the support of onenation 's interests to the exclusion of others; the hatred of other nations.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals
- noun the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other
- noun the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination
- noun love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
Etymologies
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Examples
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And nationalism translates as “hands off our near-abroad (which are inherent parts of China anyway so really, really hands off)”.
Matthew Yglesias » Does Silence Demoralize Chinese Human Rights Activists? 2009
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That's -- that's what I call nationalism, enlightening ...
Completing the Revolution: A Vision for Victory in 2000 2000
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The pride of a national group or nation is what we call nationalism.
THE DIFFERENT DRUM M. SCOTT PECK 1987
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The pride of a national group or nation is what we call nationalism.
THE DIFFERENT DRUM M. SCOTT PECK 1987
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Thus the only sincere answer to Irish nationalism is English nationalism, which is a reality; and not English imperialism, which is a reactionary fiction, or English internationalism, which is a revolutionary one.
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Peter Rutland, a professor of government at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, says that in the US, the word "nationalism" often has negative connotations.
NPR Topics: News 2011
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"There is also a risk of political protectionism -- what we call nationalism," he said.
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"There is also a risk of political protectionism -- what we call nationalism," he said.
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"There is also a risk of political protectionism -- what we call nationalism," he said.
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"There is also a risk of political protectionism -- what we call nationalism," he said.
abraxaszugzwang commented on the word nationalism
I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family. ~Rosika Schwimme
January 28, 2007