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Definition: Chauvinism |
ChauvinismNoun1. Fanatical patriotism. 2. Activity indicative of belief in the superiority of men over women. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "chauvinism" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
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The term entered public use due to a satirical treatment of Chauvin in the French play La Cocarde Tricolore (The Three-colored Cockade).
The origin of the term and early usage indicate that it was coined as a term for excessive nationalism or patriotism. Today it is most often used to reference racism or sexism.
In "Imperialism, Nationalism, Chauvinism", The Review of Politics, p. 457, Hannah Arendt describes the concept:
In the United States, chauvinism as a perceived social problem was brought to the forefront of national politics by the feminist movement, and the use of male chauvinism as a synonym for anti-female sexism. The prototypical "male chauvinist" is the character of Archie Bunker in the hit television comedy All in the Family which explored the issue as a recurring theme.
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Synonyms: ChauvinismSynonyms: antifeminism (n), jingoism (n), male chauvinism (n), superpatriotism (n), ultranationalism (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Boasting | Noun: boasting; Verb: boast, vaunt, crake; pretense, pretensions; puff, puffery; flourish, fanfaronade; gasconade; blague, bluff, gas; highfalutin, highfaluting; hot air, spread-eagleism; brag, braggardism; bravado, bunkum, buncombe; jactitation, jactancy; bounce; venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics; Chauvinism; exaggeration. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Chauvinism |
| Specialty definitions using "chauvinism": Cæ'sarism, Chauvin. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Chauvinism" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Swedish (chauvinism, flag-waving, jingoism). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Male chauvinism and imperialist war make profits and maim people. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Chauvinism" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Chauvinism" is used about 95 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 95 | 33,629 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "chauvinism": male chauvinism. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
chauvinism | 13 |
chauvinism male | 3 |
chauvinism feminism | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "chauvinism"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shovinizëm (jingoism). (various references) | |
Arabic | الغلو في الوطنية, الشوفينية. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | шовинизъм (jingoism). (various references) | |
Chinese | 沙文主义. (various references) | |
Czech | šovinismus (jingoism). (various references) | |
Dutch | chauvinisme. (various references) | |
Esperanto | ŝovinismo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | tjóðskaparreyp. (various references) | |
Farsi | میهن پرستی ازروی تعصب , تعصب دروطن پرستی . (various references) | |
Finnish | yltiöisänmaallisuus. (various references) | |
French | chauvinisme. (various references) | |
German | chauvinismus (jingoism, male chauvinism), Übereifer. (various references) | |
Greek | σωβινισμόσ (jingoism), εθνικισμόσ (nationalism), εθνικιστήσ (jingoist, nationalist). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לאומ ות (nationalism), שובי יזם. (various references) | |
Hungarian | sovinizmus (jingoism). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sovinisme. (various references) | |
Italian | sciovinismo (jingoism). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | シュタイナー学 (a shop, chemise, chocolate, Chopin, crying, displaywindow, line drive to the shortstop, liquor, mall, Schiller, Schmidt camera, Schottky diode, serial, serial printer, serialize, series, serious, serious drama, shawl, shock, shock absorber, shock theory, shocker, shocking, shockwave, shop in shop, shopping, shopping bag, shopping bag lady, shopping cart, shopping centre, shopping mall, shoran, shordarvision, shore radar television, short, short bound, short circuit, short cut, short hair, short hole, short iron, short order, short pants, short relief, short short, short skirt, short stay, short story, short time, shortcake, short-circuit appeal, shortening, short-range navigation aid, shorts, short-scale, shortstop, shot, shotgun, shotgun bride, shotgun marriage, shotgun wedding, shoulder, shoulder bag, shoulder pad, shovel, show, show biz, show business, show girl, showboat, showcase, showman, showmanship, showroom, shredder, shrimp, Shroedinger, sleeping bag, snorkel, sound like a steam engine, Steiner school, stem turn in skiing, Sturm und Drang, syllable, Syria, temporary care, trace, weeping). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ショー"ニス . (various references) | |
Manx | shauvaanaghys. (various references) | |
Norwegian | sjåvinisme. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | auvinismchay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | chauvinismo. (various references) | |
Romanian | şovinism (jingoism). (various references) | |
Russian | шовинизм. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | šovinizam (jingoism). (various references) | |
Spanish | chovinismo, chauvinismo, partiotería, machismo (machismo, maleness). (various references) | |
Swedish | chauvinism (flag-waving, jingoism). (various references) | |
Turkish | şovenlik (flag-waving, jingoism), şovenizm (flag-waving, spread eagle), aşırı milliyetçilik (flag-waving, jingoism, spread eagle). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | шовінізм (jingoism). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chủ nghĩa sô vanh. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "chauvinism": chauvinisms. (additional references) | |
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"Chauvinism" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chanvinism, chauinism, chauvanism, chauveanism, chauvenism, chauvinis, chauvinisme, chauvinisum, chauvnism, chavinism. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "chauvinism" (pronounced shō"vuni'zum) |
| 6 | -u n i' z u m | abolitionism, agrarianism, anachronism, antagonism, authoritarianism, communism, creationism, determinism, egalitarianism, expansionism, expressionism, feminism, hedonism, hooliganism, humanism, illusionism, impressionism, interventionism, isolationism, lesbianism, mechanism, microorganism, obstructionism, organism, paganism, parkinsonism, perfectionism, protectionism, puritanism, republicanism, revisionism, satanism, sectarianism, tokenism, totalitarianism, unionism, vegetarianism. |
| 5 | -n i' z u m | modernism, monism, opportunism. |
| 4 | -i' z u m | absenteeism, absolutism, activism, adventurism, alcoholism, altruism, amateurism, aneurism, animism, aphorism, astigmatism, atavism, atheism, autism, baptism, barbarism, bilingualism, bolshevism, boosterism, botulism, cannibalism, capitalism, catechism, centralism, classicism, collectivism, colonialism, commercialism, conservatism, consumerism, corporatism, counterterrorism, criticism, cronyism, cubism, cynicism, dandyism, defeatism, deism, despotism, diamagnetism, diastrophism, dimorphism, dogmatism, Druidism, dualism, dwarfism, dynamism, egoism, egotism, electromagnetism, elitism, embolism, emotionalism, empiricism, entrepreneurialism, environmentalism, ergotism, eroticism, escapism, ethnocentrism, euphemism, evangelism, extremism, factionalism, fanaticism, fascism, fatalism, favoritism, federalism, ferromagnetism, fetishism, feudalism, formalism, fundamentalism, futurism, geotropism, gnosticism, gradualism, helotism, heroism, hypnotism, idealism, imperialism, incrementalism, individualism, intellectualism, internationalism, Irredentism, isomorphism, jingoism, journalism, leftism, legalism, liberalism, lyricism, magnetism, mannerism, masochism, materialism, mercantilism, mesmerism, metabolism, methodism, militarism, minimalism, monasticism, monetarism, monotheism, moralism, multiculturalism, multilateralism, mutualism, mysticism, narcissism, nationalism, nativism, naturalism, negativism, nepotism, neutralism, nihilism, optimism, ostracism, overoptimism, pacifism, parallelism, parochialism, pastoralism, paternalism, patriotism, pessimism, pharisaism, pietism, plagiarism, pluralism, polymorphism, polytheism, populism, positivism, pragmatism, professionalism, provincialism, racialism, racism, radicalism, realism, recidivism, relativism, rheumatism, romanticism, sadism, secularism, sensationalism, separatism, sexism, skepticism, socialism, statism, stoicism, supernaturalism, surrealism, symbolism, synergism, territorialism, terrorism, theism, tourism, truism, vandalism, vigilantism, voluntarism, volunteerism, voyeurism. |
| 3 | -z u m | bosom, careerism, chasm, cytoplasm, enthusiasm, iconoclasm, ism, microcosm, neoplasm, orgasm, phantasm, prism, sarcasm, schism, spasm. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-i-i-m-n-s-u-v" | |
-2 letters: musician. | |
-3 letters: chiasmi, ischium, vicunas. | |
-4 letters: acinus, amicus, aminic, animis, animus, anisic, casini, chains, chiasm, chiaus, chinas, civism, cumins, humans, ischia, manics, mavins, minish, mucins, saimin, simian, sumach, umiacs, vanish, vicuna, vimina, vincas. | |
-5 letters: acini, amici, amins, amnic, animi, cains, chain, chams, chasm, chias, china, chins, chums, cuish, cumin, human, humic, incus, machs, mains. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-i-i-m-n-s-u-v" | |
+1 letter: chauvinisms. | |
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