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chauvinism

noun

chau·​vin·​ism ˈshō-və-ˌni-zəm How to pronounce chauvinism (audio)
1
: an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex
male chauvinism
also : behavior expressive of such an attitude
2
: undue partiality or attachment to a group or place to which one belongs or has belonged
regional chauvinism
3
: excessive or blind patriotism compare jingoism
his fervent nationalism mutated into blatant chauvinism Elizabeth Fuller
chauvinist noun or adjective
chauvinistic adjective
chauvinistically adverb

Example Sentences

their ingrained chauvinism has blinded them to their country's faults
Recent Examples on the Web The attacks on Biden reveal a deep imperial chauvinism, and either a childlike naivete about the character of American empire or outright dishonesty. Ryan Cooper, The Week, 16 Aug. 2021 The members of the Freud household were themselves not above various forms of nationalist chauvinism. Patrick Blanchfield, The New Republic, 1 Sep. 2022 In public, media heiress Yasmin Kara-Hanani is the target of her supervisor’s unrelenting chauvinism and harassment. Adario Strange, Quartz, 8 Aug. 2022 Kawakami’s furious takedown of chauvinism in Japan is eventful enough, and the poetic exactitude of her sentences provides a lively, spiraling sort of momentum. Idra Novey, The Atlantic, 22 May 2022 Class struggle, permanent revolution, and the cult of Chairman Mao replaced outward signs of nationalism and Han chauvinism, which Mao continued to dismiss as bourgeois thinking. Ian Buruma, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022 The findings are also a warning against cultural chauvinism. Thomas Talhelm, Scientific American, 28 Feb. 2022 De Saulcy set the tone of most subsequent efforts: wild ambition, wild exaggeration, wild protests—and hardheaded chauvinism. Dominic Green, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021 Our execution problems are many because American sanctions are almost always applied for reasons of domestic politics and chauvinism, not hard-nosed foreign policy. Ryan Cooper, The Week, 12 Jan. 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

French chauvinisme, from Nicolas Chauvin, character noted for his excessive patriotism and devotion to Napoleon in Théodore and Hippolyte Cogniard's play La Cocarde tricolore (1831)

First Known Use

1851, in the meaning defined at sense 3

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The first known use of chauvinism was in 1851

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