chauvinism
/ˈʃəʊ.vɪ.nɪ.zəm/US/ˈʃoʊ.vɪˌnɪzəm/
chauvinism noun: excessive patriotism, eagerness for national superiority; jingoism.
Noun
chauvinism (countable and uncountable, plural chauvinisms)
- Excessive patriotism, eagerness for national superiority; jingoism.
- (C. S.) Lewis occasionally expressed a somewhat tongue-in-cheek chauvinism towards the English. Describing an encounter with a fellow Irishman, he wrote: "Like all Irish people who meet in England, we ended by criticisms on the invincible flippancy and dullness of the Anglo-Saxon race.
- Unwarranted bias, favoritism, or devotion to one's own particular group, cause, or idea.
- Feminists say that male chauvinism is still prevalent in cultures worldwide.
- “This is an outrageous example of unconscious racial chauvinism!” Jack said.1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 312
chauvinism meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Arabic
chauvinism in Hindi
- excessive patriotism
- अंध-देशभक्ति andh-deśbhakti
chauvinism in Urdu
- جنگجویانہ وطن پرستی
chauvinism in Bengali
- অন্ধ দেশহিতৈষিতা, অন্ধ দেশপ্রেম, অরাজকতাবাদ
chauvinism in Arabic
- excessive patriotism
- شُوفِينِيَّة šūfīniyya
- unwarranted bias
- شُوفِينِّيَّة šufinniyya
More languagesFewer languages
- chauvinism in Malay
- cauvinisme
- chauvinism in Indonesian
- sauvinisme
- chauvinism in Persian
- شوونیسم šowvanism
- chauvinism in Thai
- ลัทธิคลั่งชาติ
- chauvinism in Vietnamese
- chủ nghĩa sô-vanh
Synonyms of chauvinism
Forms of chauvinism
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Origin of chauvinism
Borrowed from French chauvinisme (“idealistic devotion to Napoleon”), named for Nicolas Chauvin, a legendary and excessively patriotic soldier of the French First Republic. The figure of Chauvin became especially famous as a character in the play La Cocarde Tricolore by the Cogniard brothers.
Words formed from chauvinism
Questions about chauvinism
- What does chauvinism mean?
- Chauvinism means excessive patriotism, eagerness for national superiority; jingoism.
- What is chauvinism in Hindi?
- Chauvinism in Hindi is अंध-देशभक्ति (andh-deśbhakti). See Chauvinism meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is chauvinism?
- Chauvinism is a noun.
- How do you pronounce chauvinism?
- Chauvinism is pronounced /ˈʃəʊ.vɪ.nɪ.zəm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of chauvinism?
- The plural of chauvinism is chauvinisms.
Words near chauvinism in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: chauvinism (page history and authors); chauvinism (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chauvinism (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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