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Activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women
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chauvinism
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Wikipedia
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Chauvinism is an exaggerated patriotism and a belligerent belief in national superiority and glory. According to legend, French soldier Nicolas Chauvin was badly wounded in the Napoleonic wars . He received a pension for his injuries but it was not enough ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE male ▪ He got a little tired of her complaints that male chauvinism had stopped her getting a book out. ▪ We doubt if any of the men on translation committees or who did their own translations are conscious of any ...
Wiktionary
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n. 1 (context pejorative English) Excessive patriotism, eagerness for national superiority; jingoism. 2 (context pejorative English) Unwarranted bias, favoritism, or devotion to one's own particular group, cause, or idea.
WordNet
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n. fanatical patriotism [syn: jingoism , superpatriotism , ultranationalism ] activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women [syn: male chauvinism , antifeminism ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1840, "exaggerated, blind nationalism; patriotism degenerated into a vice," from French chauvinisme (1839), from the character Nicholas Chauvin , soldier of Napoleon's Grand Armee, notoriously attached to the Empire long after it was history, in the Cogniards' ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chauvinism \Chau"vin*ism\, n. [F. chauvinisme, from Nicolas Chauvin, a character represented as making grotesque and threatening displays of his attachment to his fallen chief, Napoleon I., in 1815 (in the play La Cocarde tricolor, 1831).] Blind and absurd ...
Usage examples of chauvinism.
Nor would Areopagus or Akropolis be puzzled so much had St Paul preached to them the modern European Christianity with its complicated spirit of all kinds of compromises with Heaven and Hell, compromise with the State, Plutocracy, Nationalism, Imperialism, Conquest, War, Diplomacy, Secular Philosophy, Secular Science, Agnostic Parliaments, Tribal Chauvinism, Education, Officialism, Bureaucracy, etc.
The herd instincts must be satisfied at whatever cost, and have been in the past through such mechanisms as warfare, religion, nationalism, partyism and various forms of group chauvinism.
Chauvinism was a matter of absinthe, natural evil, and Gabrielle Rouget.
The greatest amount of unrecognized and unchallenged chauvinism is at work.
In chapters 8 and 9 we realized how the social-emotional dependency and the oppression involved in sex roles and chauvinism can cause special problems for married women.
She would have deliberately chosen Selwey for his chauvinism, then sent Art in to front for her.
Germany's insecurity before 1940 created an extreme chauvinism, leading to wars of conquest and to gas chambers.
Scientists also exhibit biases connected with human chauvinisms and with our intellectual limitations.
Albert Einstein, a keen critic of prejudice and privilege all his life, considered this "absolute" physics a remnant of an increasingly discredited Earth chauvinism.
There is something special about our time—not just the temporal chauvinism that those who reside in any epoch doubtless feel, but something, as outlined above, clearly unique and strictly relevant to our species' future chances: This is the first time that (a) our exponentiating technology has reached the precipice of self-destruction, but also the first time that (b) we can postpone or avoid destruction by going somewhere else, somewhere off the Earth.
Contact with another intelligent species on a planet of some other star – a species biologically far more different from us than dolphins or whales – may help us to cast off our baggage of accumulated jingoisms, from nationalism to human chauvinism.
But still, with the intellectual chauvinism inherent in our monolinear orientation, we assumed that the wavefront of simultaneous reality advanced everywhere at the same rate.
It would be good to leave behind the painful chauvinism of Earth standard gravity and get back home to the normal gravity of Mars, he thought, and hurried on his way.