superpatriotism

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
  • Unwilling to depend on park personnel to enforce the patriotism mandate, the Trump administration is enlisting park visitors to report potentially offending displays and ranger talks that present an insufficiently sanitized account of American history.
    John Lawrence, Twin Cities, 18 July 2025
  • Gallup finds that 58 percent of all Americans still subscribe to high levels of patriotism.
    Paul du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • From all these contradictions, Meloni is constructing a new kind of nationalism: populist, nativist, and pro-Western, but committed to European and Atlantic alliances.
    Massimo Calabresi, Time, 24 July 2025
  • Palestinian claims, in his description, were a propaganda tool of Arab nationalism and Islamic fundamentalism.
    Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 11 July 2025
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“Superpatriotism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superpatriotism. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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