as in nationalism
excessive favoritism towards one's own country
their ingrained chauvinism has blinded them to their country's faults
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Recent Examples of chauvinism
My West Coast chauvinism crumbled during a recent tour of New England beer and baseball.
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Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
Jews and other immigrants from southern and eastern Europe were disproportionately targeted, highlighting the cultural affinities between anti-radicalism and racial and ethnic chauvinism.
—Rick Baldoz, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2025
The national community could be knit together without indulging the chauvinism of belligerence.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
American chauvinism and solipsism leads them to believe every country would love to join America.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2025
Jews and other immigrants from southern and eastern Europe were disproportionately targeted, highlighting the cultural affinities between anti-radicalism and racial and ethnic chauvinism.
—Rick Baldoz, The Conversation, 30 Apr. 2025
The national community could be knit together without indulging the chauvinism of belligerence.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2025
American chauvinism and solipsism leads them to believe every country would love to join America.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for chauvinism
Noun
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This sort of blood-and-soil nationalism that has taken over the elite of the Republican Party is really a reflection of being extremely online.—
Hanna Rosin,
The Atlantic,
25 Jan. 2026
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Carney said in a time of rising populism and ethnic nationalism, Canada can show how diversity is a strength, not a weakness.—
Rob Gillies,
Fortune,
23 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Nostalgia and American patriotism have been familiar themes.—
John Kell,
Forbes.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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But these are the days that bold patriotism and waterproof mascara are made for.—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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The positive feelings people have toward their community translate directly into civic engagement, without the risk of increasing negative feelings such as jingoism or xenophobia.—
Sean Richey,
The Conversation,
15 Jan. 2026
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Al-Akkad reserves his harshest criticism not for the obvious warmongers of American empire, explicit in their jingoism and nationalist fervor, but for the decorous liberal centrists, complacent in their institutional comfort, their birthright virtue too easily claimed.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
2 Dec. 2025
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“Chauvinism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chauvinism. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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