ethnomaniacn.adj.
/ˌɛθnə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪak/, U.S. /ˌɛθnoʊˈmeɪniˌæk/ A. n.
A person obsessed with or passionate about the importance of national identity, or (now more usually) of ethnic identity or purity.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > one excessively keen on rights of races
ethnomaniac1861
1861 Times 5 Oct. 10/2 The political ethnomaniacs who are always talking about the ‘rights of nationalities’ might..propose the annexation of the province of Alsace to some German State.
1885 Sat. Rev. 28 Nov. 69 Lord Salisbury is not likely to attempt the parcelling out of what remains of the Turkish Empire to please the ethnomaniacs.
1926 Science 22 Jan. 76/1 In no case has any serious effort been made by such ethnomaniacs to isolate a pure racial type and to study either its mental qualities or material culture.
2010 A. Julius Trials of Diaspora i. i. 52 ‘Race’..appealed..to second-rate thinkers, publicists, and synthesizers (and cranks—ethnomaniacs of various stripes).
Characterized by an obsession with or passion about the importance of national identity. Obsolete.
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1885 Sat. Rev. 28 Nov. 69 Lord Salisbury..is admittedly not hostile to the status quo which represents a certain accomplishment of ethnomaniac ideas.
1886 Sat. Rev. 16 Jan. 69 The game, from the ethnomaniac point of view, may be regarded as won.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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