ethnonationalist

English

Etymology

From ethno- +‎ nationalist.

Adjective

ethnonationalist (comparative more ethnonationalist, superlative most ethnonationalist)

1. Of or pertaining to ethnonationalism.
   • 2001 December 9, Bruce Sterling, “BattleSwarm”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Recent events in Somalia, Kosovo, Chechnya and Afghanistan show that the new global threat is not conventionally massed national armies but what one study calls “ethnonationalist paramilitary bands, organized in small, dispersed units.”

   • 2017 October 21, Peter Wehner, “Going Against the Republican Herd”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Some so-called establishment Republicans, alarmed by the rise of the ethnonationalist wing of the party, comfort themselves with the belief that this movement can be domesticated, absorbed into the traditional coalition with its sharp edges sanded off.

   • 2018 May 21, Paul Krugman, “What’s the Matter With Europe?”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

     Hungary has effectively become a one-party autocracy, ruled by an ethnonationalist ideology. Poland seems well down the same path.

Noun

ethnonationalist (plural ethnonationalists)

1. A proponent of ethnonationalism.
   • 2010, Moira Inghilleri, Sue-Ann Harding, Translation and Violent Conflict, page 228:

     As central Party control weakened, independence demands grew in other republike, inspired in part by local ethnonationalisms and fear of living in a Yugoslavia dominated by Serbian ethnonationalists.

   • 2016 October 19, Nate Cohn, “The New Blue and Red: An Educational Split Is Replacing the Culture War”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN:

     This election is a hint of one way things could turn next: a new split between the beneficiaries of multicultural globalism and the working-class ethnonationalists who feel left behind economically and culturally.