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Nationalism vs Matriotism - What's the difference?

nationalism | matriotism |

As nouns the difference between nationalism and matriotism

is that nationalism is patriotism; the idea of supporting one's country and culture while matriotism is hometown, school, or parish pride or loyalty, as opposed to nationalism or patriotism.

nationalism

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Patriotism; the idea of supporting one's country and culture.
  • Support for the creation of a sovereign nation (which does not currently exist).
    • '', ''Kurdish '''nationalism
  • Jingoism; the support of one nation's interests to the exclusion of others; the hatred of other nations.

    • Derived terms

    * micronationalism

    See also

    * nationalist (wikipedia nationalism)

    Anagrams

    *

    matriotism

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Matriotism

    Noun

    (-)
  • Hometown, school, or parish pride or loyalty, as opposed to nationalism or patriotism
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1856 [1904] , author=James Russell Lowell & Charles Eliot Norton , title=The complete writings of James Russell Lowell , chapter=To Miss Norton , volume=15 , page=8 , passage=I am delighted with your ma triotism . “ Rome, Venice, Cambridge !” I take it for an ascending scale, Rome being the first step and Cambridge the glowing apex. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1885 , author=H. C. Beeching , title=The Academy , chapter=Rhymes à la Mode. By A. Lang , volume=27 , number=667 , page=108–109 , passage=[The poem] “ Almae Matres ” celebrates “ a land of waters green and clear,” and “ a little city worn and grey.”
  • Love or celebration of a woman's influence upon society; a women's equivalent to male patriotism
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1894 , author=National Household Economic Association , title=The New England kitchen magazine: a monthly journal of domestic science , volume=1 , page=84 , passage=Patriotism has incited men to live and die for the country and government ; but Matriotism' has impelled women to live and work for mankind. The ' Matriotism of household economics needs to be recognized as necessary for the whole of society. }}
  • Love of the motherland, as opposed to patriotism as love of the fatherland.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1995 , author=Daniel Rancour-Laferriere , title=The slave soul of Russia: moral masochism and the cult of suffering , page=225 , passage=The most extreme Russian patriots are matriots at heart. By this I mean that their devotion to “Mother Russia” is so intense that the underlying maternal fantasy basis of patriotism comes to the surface as maternal imagery, while paternal imagery fades away. }}
  • Pacifist patriotism; love of society as opposed to love of the state
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=2006 , author=Cindy Sheehan & Howard Zinn , title=Dear President Bush , page=113 , passage=Matriotism is the opposite of patriotism. A yin to its yang, a counterforce to the violent militarism of patriotism. Patriots cower behind the flag and send young people to die for the sake of material wealth. }}
  • Devotion to Mother Earth, ecology, sustainability, peace and the survival of the human species as long as possible.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "matriotism")

    Usage notes

    Though attested since the mid 19th century, continued use of quotation marks, and comments that the author would like to be able to claim credit for the word but for it having been suggested by someone else, shows that it is often used as a neologism.

    Derived terms

    * matriotic * matriot, Matriot English words suffixed with -ism