Ethnonationalism

Quick meaning: Ethnonationalism is a noun meaning A type of nationalism which defines the nation in terms of a shared ethnicity.

Meaning

A type of nationalism which defines the nation in terms of a shared ethnicity.

Example Sentences

Since 1863 Polish 'National Democrats' like Roman Dmowski had abandoned the idea of a multinational commonwealth for a more 'modem' Polish ethnonationalism.

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.

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.

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.”

Word Forms

• ethnonationalisms
• ethno-nationalism

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ethnicism, ethnostate, ethnoracialism, nationalitarianism, ethnotheory, ethnostatism.

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