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pan-nationalism

pan-nationalism noun: nationalism that transcends traditional (historical) national identities or boundaries (such as borders) in order to create a single, unified identity.

Noun

pan-nationalism (uncountable)

  1. Nationalism that transcends traditional (historical) national identities or boundaries (such as borders) in order to create a single, unified identity.
    • Consequently, though Russia must ultimately recover—and, organized and officered by Germans, her recovery may well be rapid—the immediate future in Central Asia and the Middle East would appear to lie at least as much with Islamic pan-nationalism as with Bolshevism.1922 January, H. G. Martin, “India and the Next War”, in O. W. White, editor, Journal of the United Service Institution of India, volume LII (52), number 226, United Service Institution of India...
    • Nationalism is sensitive to the limits of its own security, and tends to withdraw into its own borders at precisely that point when it fears for its sovereignty and when faced with the prospect of being absorbed into a larger pan-nationalism.1976, Louis Leo Snyder, Varieties of Nationalism: A Comparative Study, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 241

Origin of pan-nationalism

From pan- + nationalism.

Questions about pan-nationalism

What does pan-nationalism mean?
Pan-nationalism means nationalism that transcends traditional (historical) national identities or boundaries (such as borders) in order to create a single, unified identity.
What part of speech is pan-nationalism?
Pan-nationalism is a noun.

Words near pan-nationalism in the dictionary

  1. Pan-like
  2. pan-loaf
  3. pan-loafy
  4. pan-loaves
  5. pan-Muslimism
  6. pan-nationalism
  7. pan-Palestinian
  8. pan-pan
  9. pan-pipes
  10. pan-Polish
  11. pan-post-Soviet

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