as in patriotism
excessive favoritism towards one's own country
her superpatriotism causes her to assume that countries desperately long to be just like her own
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Noun
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With the country approaching its 250th anniversary, all three leaders were asked what patriotism means to them.—
Brit McCandless Farmer,
CBS News,
12 Apr. 2026 -
This was an era of over-the-top displays of patriotism and even jingoism; the phrase Let’s make America great again was in.—
Jonathan Lemire,
The Atlantic,
9 Apr. 2026
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Pitcavage also noted media preserved on the shooter’s devices related to Serbian nationalism and the 1999 Columbine shooting.—
Nick Penzenstadler,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2026
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How did the virulent nationalism and fraught politics of France’s interwar period—no less racked by crisis than its nuclear-era dénouement—inform the artist’s approach to figure and form?—
Ara H. Merjian,
ARTnews.com,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Superpatriotism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superpatriotism. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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