internationalismn.
/ˌɪntəˈnaʃn̩əlɪz(ə)m/, /ˌɪntəˈnaʃn̩l̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ˌɪntəˈnaʃənl̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ˌɪntəˈnaʃ(ə)nəlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌɪn(t)ərˈnæʃ(ə)nəlˌɪz(ə)m/ 1. The condition or quality of being international in character, composition, or scope.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > nationalism > [noun] > internationalism
internationality1825
internationalism1843
globalism1943
1843 Illustr. London News 17 June 436/2 Internationalism is another word for civilisation.
1876 M. M. Grant Sun-maid II. xi. 66 Its internationalism was the feature that struck you first. It would be difficult to mention a European nation which had not there its representative.
1895 Thinker 8 536 Internationalism is the only virtue that comports with peace; it will come about by the great alliances of steam and electricity, that never can be made national in spirit.
1910 J. Addams Twenty Years at Hull-House xiii. 307 An internationalism as sturdy and virile as it is unprecedented..in our cosmopolitan neighbourhood.
1921 F. M. Todd Story of Expos. III. xxxv. 205 The dedication of the Siamese Pavilion gave the crowning Asiatic touch to the internationalism of the Exposition.
1955 Times 17 May 10/7 Internationalism seems to have become by now an accepted thing even in trades far less easily internationalized than ours [sc. international shipping].
1971 World Archaeol. 3 226 In Childe's view, it was..the Iron Curtain which abruptly severed this age-old tradition of internationalism.
2013 H. Jones Negotiating Cohesion, Inequality & Change iv. 111 The success of London's bid to host the 2012 Olympics is widely attributed to its foregrounding of the internationalism and multiculturalism of East London.
2. The principle of cooperation and understanding between different nations; belief in or advocacy of this principle.
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1851 M. Tupper in D. Hudson Martin Tupper (1949) x. 121 [President Fillmore..received me] very kindly and cordially, and avowing himself a great lover of my works and my Internationalism.
1867 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 185/2 Representative reform..he valued not only for itself, but for its connexion with internationalism.
1883 H. Williams Ethics of Diet i. 8 Patriotism and internationalism are, apparently, two very opposite principles.
1925 Princeton Alumni Weekly 15 Apr. 656/2 Never was nationalism so rampant and riotous. Yet never was internationalism so passionately espoused.
1949 Irish Times 10 Mar. 3/7 No nation in the world had shown such a tendency towards internationalism and a repugnance for isolationism.
1973 Times 16 Apr. 4/6 No city has done more than Coventry since the war to further the cause of internationalism.
2008 W. A. Link Righteous Warrior xiii. 455 Helms advocated a vision that was sharply at odds with Clinton's internationalism.
3. Frequently with capital initial. A movement or doctrine advocating international proletarian revolution; spec. the doctrine or practice of any of the various socialist or communist Internationals (international n. 3). Now chiefly historical.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > socialism > [noun] > other types of socialism
Saint-Simonism1830
democratic socialism1848
social democracy1848
scientific socialism1849
utopian socialism1849
state socialism1851
societarianism1852
internationalism1871
state capitalism?1886
nationalism1889
Liberal-Labourism1905
champagne socialism1906
maximalism1909
guild-socialism1912
Popular Frontism1938
Saint-Simonianism1974
1871 N.Y. Herald 23 June 4/4 Internationalism is Vandalism. The men of the International and the Commune differ from the Goths and Vandals of the past only in being more cruel and destructive.
1898 Daily News 27 July 6/2 The preacher of the Four Commandments (non-Resistance, Chastity, Labour, Universal Brotherhood, otherwise Internationalism).
1918 E. B. Bax Reminisc. 138 The question of Internationalism was indeed one of the great bones of contention between them and the Marxians.
1933 Current Hist. May 180/2 The idea of internationalism was not forgotten; neither was the machinery of the Comintern discarded.
1976 Times 28 Sept. (China Suppl.) 10/3 Under the banner of ‘proletarian internationalism’ ideological motives seem to be distinguishable features of Chinese aid.
2010 K. J. Callahan Demonstr. Culture i. i. 6 In 1889..not one, but two separate and competing international socialist congresses met to claim the mantle of internationalism.
4. The government by two or more foreign countries of a state or territory which is deemed to be in need of protection. Now rare.Chiefly with reference to the joint control of Egypt by Britain and France between 1876 to 1882.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > [noun] > other types of government
regency1643
myriarchy1650
responsible government1782
charter-government1796
co-government1834
minority government1859
internationalism1879
minority rule1886
Labour government1892
provisional government1916
paepae1937
1879 Standard 11 Nov. 6/3 The principle of Internationalism in Egypt.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Sept. 4/1 On a par with most of the others which internationalism has devised for the welfare of Egypt.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 705/2 The investment..helped..to save the country [sc. Egypt] from bankruptcy and internationalism.
1918 Spectator 2 Nov. 476/2 Internationalism was tried in the case of the Congo, with results which no one desires to see repeated.
1928 Times 13 Mar. (E. Africa & Sudan number) p. xxiii/7 The Sudan should be protected from the effects of the baneful régime of internationalism which existed in Egypt.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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