Definitions for nationalism

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nationalism na·tion·al·ism

Spelling: [nash-uh-nl-iz-uh m, nash-n Nationalism is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 784 anagrams from letters in nationalism (aaiilmnnost).

Definitions for nationalism

noun

1. spirit or aspirations common to the whole of a nation.
2. devotion and loyalty to one's own country; patriotism.
3. excessive patriotism; chauvinism.
4. the desire for national advancement or political independence.
5. the policy or doctrine of asserting the interests of one's own nation viewed as separate from the interests of other nations or the common interests of all nations.
6. an idiom or trait peculiar to a nation.
7. a movement, as in the arts, based upon the folk idioms, history, aspirations, etc., of a nation.

Origin of nationalism

First recorded in 1830-40; national + -ism

Examples for nationalism

Take this feature away, and there is no nationalism left to even talk about.

If that be nationalism, then, of course, we are all nationalists.

It begins now to be plain as to what “tolerance” is to be in the millennial era of nationalism.

Btw, I'm not a fan of nationalism but happy Swiss day to you anyway.

MZ and her siblings were raised nothing, really, except to be skeptical about nationalism and organized religion.

Have we not sons to advance and daughters to marry in the world, and how much will nationalism do for these?

The freaks of nationalism are as remarkable as the freaks of internationalism.

Even in the smallest of Indian locales, the divisions of geography and nationalism are played out on a micro scale.

Individual governments took the lead, bankrolling most of the process in the name of competition and nationalism.

But properly channeled, nationalism and patriotism are matters of the heart that cut to our deepest ideas of who we are.