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someone who has an unreasonable belief that their own country or race is the best or most important: The English tend to be chauvinists - they expect you to sing in their language. The leaders of Europe deny the legitimacy of this xenophobic chauvinist.
It refers to the maintenance of fixed beliefs and attitudes of male superiority, associated with overt or covert depreciation of women. Challenging chauvinist attitudes often results in anxiety or other symptoms.
1. : an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex. male chauvinism. also : behavior expressive of such an attitude. 2. : undue partiality or attachment to a group or place to which one belongs or has belonged. regional chauvinism. 3. : excessive or blind patriotism compare jingoism.
noun [ U ] us / ˈʃoʊ·vəˌnɪz·əm /. Add to word list. Add to word list. the strong and unreasonable belief that your own country, sex, or group is the best or most important: an appeal to national pride and chauvinism.
noun. a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory. a person who believes one gender is superior to the other, as a male chauvinist or a female chauvinist.
A chauvinist is someone who blindly and enthusiastically believes in the superiority of his cause or people. If you grew up in New York and refuse to eat at any pizzeria beyond a five-mile radius of the Empire State Building, you could be described as a New York pizza chauvinist.
a person who has an aggressive and unreasonable belief that their own country is better than all others. See chauvinist in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: chauvinist. Definition of chauvinist noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
noun. zealous and aggressive patriotism or blind enthusiasm for military glory. biased devotion to any group, attitude, or cause: religious chauvinism. the denigration, disparagement, and patronization of a particular gender based on the belief that one gender is inferior to another and thus deserving of less than equal treatment or benefit.
Chauvinism is a strong, unreasonable belief that your own country is more important and morally better than other people's. [disapproval] It may also appeal to the latent chauvinism of many ordinary people. [ + of] chauvinist Word forms: plural chauvinists countable noun.
1. Militant devotion to and glorification of one's country; fanatical patriotism. 2. Prejudiced belief in the superiority of one's own gender, group, or kind: "the chauvinism ... of making extraterrestrial life in our own image" (Henry S.F. Cooper, Jr.).
