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Slavness en · NOUN

Etymology

From Slav + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being Slavic, or belonging to the Slavs in terms of identity.
    • Gogol's friend Mikhail Pogodin, who specialized in the topic, accepted the Norman theory yet argued for the basic Slavness of early Rusian culture. 2007, Edyta M. Bojanowska, Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism, page 116:
    • […] they continue to mirror-image the Greeks in their obsession with antiquity and in downgrading the Slavness of contemporary Macedonians. 1999, J. Pettifer, The New Macedonian Question, page 51:

Relateds

Slavhood · Slavdom