Pseudonation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pseudonation is a noun meaning (politics) An entity that falsely purports or is purported to be a nation.
Meaning
(politics) An entity that falsely purports or is purported to be a nation.
Example Sentences
Such a pseudonation will have its political parties split into ethnic or religious branches.
Does Minerva, the name of the ancient Roman goddess of wisdom, seem inappropriate for a pseudonation created by some California promoters?
Many state nationalisms are based on nothing more than a putative or postulated nation, i.e. a pseudonation–as became very clear after the fact in the cases of the USSR, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and the GDR.
Word Forms
- pseudonations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pseudo-nation, pseud, pseudoelection, pseudoreferendum, purportion, pseudism.
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