Matriotism

Quick meaning: Matriotism is a noun meaning School, hometown, or parish pride or loyalty, as opposed to nationalism or patriotism.

Meaning

School, hometown, or parish pride or loyalty, as opposed to nationalism or patriotism.

More Meanings

1. The love or celebration of a woman's influence upon society; the female equivalent to male patriotism.
2. The love of the motherland, as opposed to patriotism as love of the fatherland.
3. Pacifist patriotism; the love of society as opposed to the love of the state.
4. An enduring devotion to Mother Earth, ecology, sustainability, peace, and the survival of the human species.

Example Sentences

I am delighted with your ma'''triotism. "Rome, Venice, Cambridge!" I take it for an ascending scale, Rome being the first step and Cambridge the glowing apex.

Patriotism has incited men to live and die for the country and government; but Matriotism has impelled women to live and work for mankind. […] The Matriotism of household economics needs to be recognized as necessary for the whole of society.

[The poem] "Almae Matres" celebrates "a land of waters green and clear," and "a little city worn and grey." […] But though Mr. [Andrew] Lang's matriotism is thus divided, he has only one fatherland [Scotland], and to that he is faithful against the world.

Matriotism is the opposite of patriotism. A yin to its yang, a counterforce to the violent militarism of patriotism. […] a Matriot would never send her child or another mother’s child to fight nonsense wars. She would march into war herself to protect her child from harm. […] Patriots cower behind the flag and send young people to die for the sake of material wealth.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nationalism, patriotism, nationality, localism, nationalitarianism, partyism.

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