Nationhood
noun
The status of being a separate and independent nation.
The country fought for years to achieve its nationhood.
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- achieve nationhood
- struggle for nationhood
noun
The awareness or consciousness of belonging to a nation.
The Olympic games often foster a sense of nationhood among countries.
Often appears as...
- sense of nationhood
- foster nationhood
noun
The status of being a separate and independent nation.
The country fought for years to achieve its nationhood.
Often appears as...
- achieve nationhood
- struggle for nationhood
noun
The awareness or consciousness of belonging to a nation.
The Olympic games often foster a sense of nationhood among countries.
Often appears as...
- sense of nationhood
- foster nationhood
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Pro Tip 1/3Political Concept
Nationhood often involves discussions on politics and history.
The revolution marked the beginning of our nationhood.
Pro Tip 2/3Historical Journey
Nationhood can represent a long struggle for recognition and rights.
Their nationhood was earned after decades of struggle.
Pro Tip 3/3Legal Status
Nationhood implies legal sovereignty recognized by other countries.
Upon signing the treaty, they gained nationhood.
Compare with
autonomycitizenshipcountryhomelandindependencenationalitysovereigntystatehood
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they argued they shouted they threatened slowly but steadily the elements of compromise the only thing that holds democracy together began to fall upon they have operated the great undertaking of American nationhood
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Edith Stein
German Saint
Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.
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Jeremy Hardy
British Comedian
For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans.
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Robert Webb
English Comedian
Missing out an apostrophe or two does not make you an idiot. But equating party allegiance with nationhood certainly makes you a thug. And thugs don't often notice that they're thugs, usually because they're also idiots.
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Andrew O'Hagan
Scottish Novelist
Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.
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Dennis Kucinich
American Politician
Life should not be a funeral march to the grave. We should have the capacity for being able to lift up not just public dialogue, but lift up each other in a greater cause of nationhood.
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Julian Baggini
British Author
Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.
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Miriam Toews
Canadian Writer
Like every Canadian, I have been taught that one of the most important functions of art is to supply and elaborate the myths and narratives of nationhood.
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Jimmy Carter
American President
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
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Sushmita Sen
Indian Actress
I was born to two people who helped me imbibe feelings of nationhood in my heart and love for the country.
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Joe Biden
American President
The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.
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Edith Stein
German Saint
Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.
Quote examples
Jeremy Hardy
British Comedian
For me, ancestry is just one thing that connects us to people, and feeling connected to other people is generally a good thing, as long as one kind of connection does not have primacy over all the others. Heredity, race and nationhood are not the best criteria by which to judge our fellow humans.
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Robert Webb
English Comedian
Missing out an apostrophe or two does not make you an idiot. But equating party allegiance with nationhood certainly makes you a thug. And thugs don't often notice that they're thugs, usually because they're also idiots.
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Andrew O'Hagan
Scottish Novelist
Fans of football and fans of nationhood have a similar zeal. Read the fanzines: their contributors could find a needle-sized diss in a haystack of compliments, and their passions are fundamentalist.
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Dennis Kucinich
American Politician
Life should not be a funeral march to the grave. We should have the capacity for being able to lift up not just public dialogue, but lift up each other in a greater cause of nationhood.
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Julian Baggini
British Author
Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.
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Miriam Toews
Canadian Writer
Like every Canadian, I have been taught that one of the most important functions of art is to supply and elaborate the myths and narratives of nationhood.
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Jimmy Carter
American President
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
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Sushmita Sen
Indian Actress
I was born to two people who helped me imbibe feelings of nationhood in my heart and love for the country.
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Joe Biden
American President
The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.
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