Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Militant devotion to and glorification of one's country; fanatical patriotism.
- noun Prejudiced belief in the superiority of one's own gender, group, or kind.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The sentiments of a chauvin; enthusiastic, unreflecting devotion to any cause; especially, absurdly exaggerated patriotism or military enthusiasm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.
- noun exaggerated and unreasoning partisanship to any group or cause; -- .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun pejorative Excessive
patriotism , eagerness for national superiority;jingoism . - noun pejorative Unwarranted bias, favoritism, or devotion to one's own particular group, cause, or idea.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fanatical patriotism
- noun activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The "Le Pen" of American public life (cf. the French you love to hate) apparently believes that demagogic national chauvinism is a ticket to political success.
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Israeli chauvinism is for some reason seen by political elites as the only politically viable stance, but there is no reason to suppose that real people feel the same way.
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The chauvinism is very much of its era, and yet the show is self-aware of its sexism and makes fun of itself.
652 : Bev Vincent 2008
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In polarised situations, it is almost natural for politicians to try and compete with each other in chauvinism rather than in their willingness to accommodate - Sri Lanka and Israel/Palestine are particularly obvious examples, as indeed is Northern Ireland.
Samuel Pepys is amazed nwhyte 2008
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I believe most readers would be able to understand that this is the use of the word chauvinism that I had in mind in my comment, even though you believe this use to be an “original albeit nonsensical” one.
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Have you noticed that male chauvinism is making a comeback?
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Have you noticed that male chauvinism is making a comeback?
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The word chauvinism is often used as shorthand for male chauvinism, a term describing the attitudes of men who believe that women are inferior and should not be given equal status with men.
chauvinism 2002
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To carry patriotism to the edge of chauvinism is to abandon the discipline of thought, which is the only safeguard against self-seeking patriotism.
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While the federal political structure has worked remarkably well in the context of India, where coexistence of several ethnic / linguistic states acts as buffer to any chauvinism from the Hindi heartland, it is unlikely to work in Sri Lanka where there are only two main ethnic groups.
TamilNet Newswire 2008
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