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ethnonationalism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From ethno- + nationalism.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A type of nationalism which defines the nation in terms of a shared ethnicity.
   • Since 1863 Polish 'National Democrats' like Roman Dmowski had abandoned the idea of a multinational commonwealth for a more 'modem' Polish ethnonationalism. 2011, Andrew Wilson, Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 157:
   • 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.” 2019 November 4, Liam Stack, quoting Greg Johnson, “American White Nationalist Is Arrested in Norway”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Apr 2020:
   • 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. 1987, Walker Connor, “Ethnonationalism”, in Understanding Political Development: an Analytic Study, Little, Brown, →ISBN, page 196:
   • 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. 2021 November 17, Srecko Latal, “Bosnia Is On the Brink of Breaking Up”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Nov 2021:
   • 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. 1998, William A. Douglass, “A western perspective on an eastern interpretation of where north meets south: Pyrenean borderland cultures”, in Nation and State at International Frontiers, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 73:
   • 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. 2010, Moira Inghilleri, Sue-Ann Harding, Translation and Violent Conflict, page 228:

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ethnonationalist

Translations (25)

hi नृतावाद (type of nationalism) · es etnonacionalismo (type of nationalism) · sl etnonationalizma (type of nationalism) · ru этнонационализма (type of nationalism) · sh etnonacionalizam (type of nationalism) · fr ethnonationalisme (type of nationalism) · ro etnonaționalism (type of nationalism) · el επανολίσθηση (type of nationalism) · fi etnonationalismi (type of nationalism) · pl etynonacjonalizm (type of nationalism) · cs etnonacionalismus (type of nationalism) · pt etnonacionalismo (type of nationalism) · he אתנוקליזם (type of nationalism) · ja 民族主義 (type of nationalism) · tr etnonasyonalizme (type of nationalism) · cmn 民族民族主義 /民族民族主义 (type of nationalism) · it etnonazionalismo (type of nationalism) · lt etnonationalizmas (type of nationalism) · sh етнонационализам (type of nationalism) · id etnonasionalisme (type of nationalism) · de Ethnonationalismus (type of nationalism) · hu etnonationalizmus (type of nationalism) · et etnilisus (type of nationalism) · ar قومي (type of nationalism) · ko 윤리 주의 (type of nationalism)