sovereignism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A doctrine which supports acquiring or preserving the political independence of a nation, region or group, from external or higher-level entities (e.g. federalism or supranational unions like the UN) or from internal (e.g. ethnic or sexual minority) groups it considers subversive.
Uncountable
noun
A doctrine which supports acquiring or preserving the political independence of a nation, region or group, from external or higher-level entities (e.g. federalism or supranational unions like the UN) or from internal (e.g. ethnic or sexual minority) groups it considers subversive.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Ambiguities built into the Soviet constitutions allowed a crisis of sovereignism, often called the Parade of Sovereignties, to break the Union in 1991."
- "Near-synonym: Euroscepticism"