pan-nationalism
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.72 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
6
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Nationalism that transcends traditional (historical) national identities or boundaries (such as borders) in order to create a single, unified identity.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Consequently, though Russia must ultimately recover—and, organized and officered by Germans, her recovery may well be rapid—the immediate future in Central Asia and the Middle East would appear to lie at least as much with Islamic pan-nationalism as with Bolshevism."
- "Nationalism is sensitive to the limits of its own security, and tends to withdraw into its own borders at precisely that point when it fears for its sovereignty and when faced with the prospect of being absorbed into a larger pan-nationalism."
- "A brief overview of the three pan-nationalist trends of thought around African, Islamic, and Asian identities shows that pan-nationalism became possible as part of globalizing discourses during the high age of imperialism from the 1880s to the 1920s."
Etymology
From pan- + nationalism.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Phrases
pan-national
pan-nationalist
Frequently Paired Words
pan-national
pan-nationalist