supernationalism

[ soo-per-nash-uh-nl-iz-uhm ]

noun

1. an extreme or fanatical loyalty or devotion to a nation.
2. advocacy of the establishment of governments composed of more than one nation, each nation agreeing to surrender at least part of its national sovereignty to a superior governmental authority.
3. advocacy of the establishment of organizations composed of groups from more than one nation, each of which agrees to surrender at least part of its authority to a superior, centralized authority.

Other Words From

• super·nation·al·ist noun adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of supernationalism¹

First recorded in 1915–20; super- + nationalism

Example Sentences

He ducked the question with a long answer praising "national honor" but rejecting "negative" forms of "supernationalism."

From Time Magazine Archive

Significantly silent has been Japan's most famed Christian, myopic Toyohiko Kagawa, a Presbyterian convert and founder of the Kingdom of God movement, who privately deprecates Japanese supernationalism but avoids public condemnation of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here beneath him lay London, the finest city in the world, where, if ever anywhere, had been tried the experiment of a religion resting on the strength of a national isolation instead of an universal supernationalism;—it had been tried, and found wanting.

From Project Gutenberg