ethnonationalism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A type of nationalism which defines the nation in terms of a shared ethnicity.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "It risks triteness to note that during the past two decades ethnonationalism has been an extremely consequential force throughout the first, second, and third worlds."
- "This ultimate concern underscores the elitist, bourgeois and ultimately conservative dimension that is one of the several faces of Catalan ethnonationalism, although in fact throughout its history the movement has a history of 'pacting' across class lines."
- "As central Party control weakened, independence demands grew in other republike, inspired in part by local ethnonationalisms and fear of living in a Yugoslavia dominated by Serbian ethnonationalists."
- "Since 1863 Polish 'National Democrats' like Roman Dmowski had abandoned the idea of a multinational commonwealth for a more 'modem' Polish ethnonationalism."
- "In the post, Mr. Johnson wrote that his initial reaction to Mr. Breivik’s killing spree was “largely anger, because I feared that his actions would harm not just Norwegian ethnonationalism but white nationalism around the world.”"
- "In Bosnia and Herzegovina, ethnonationalism has taken center stage. Mr. Dodik is not alone in his radical ways: Muslim Bosniaks, the largest ethnic group, have agitated for a unitary state, and Bosnian Croats have demanded an autonomous Croat region."
Etymology
From ethno- + nationalism.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: ethno-
Usage
Inflected Forms
ethnonationalisms (plural)
ethno-nationalism (alternative)