as in nationalism
excessive favoritism towards one's own country
their ingrained chauvinism has blinded them to their country's faults
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Recent Examples of chauvinism
The national community could be knit together without indulging the chauvinism of belligerence.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
American chauvinism and solipsism leads them to believe every country would love to join America.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Battling chauvinism within the surfing community - and debilitating injuries - Gabeira finally got her wave, at Nazare, estimated at 73.5 feet, a woman’s record.
—Jim Clash, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
There’s a lot of winking and smirking between the two of them, which defuses the crass chauvinism that guides the whole play.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 24 July 2024
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
American chauvinism and solipsism leads them to believe every country would love to join America.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
Battling chauvinism within the surfing community - and debilitating injuries - Gabeira finally got her wave, at Nazare, estimated at 73.5 feet, a woman’s record.
—Jim Clash, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
There’s a lot of winking and smirking between the two of them, which defuses the crass chauvinism that guides the whole play.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 24 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chauvinism
Noun
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Monday's Sharm El-Sheikh summit in Egypt highlighted the resilience of Palestinian nationalism.—
Newsweek Contributors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Oct. 2025
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But Stowe was a more complicated figure than the sentimentalist label would belie, and her embrace of Brown’s actions has much to teach us about Christian nationalism and Stowe herself.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Thinking of patriotism this way ties it more closely to solidarity.—
Belinda Luscombe,
Time,
13 Oct. 2025
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Wilfried cited patriotism as his only motivation for voting.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
12 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The level of jingoism and rallying behind Modi has been very strong.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
30 Sep. 2025
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The series undermines its own points about the dangers of miscommunication and jingoism by fixating on the same untoward details that tabloids were obsessing over years before.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Chauvinism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chauvinism. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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