internationalityn.
/ˌɪntəˌnaʃəˈnalᵻti/, U.S. /ˌɪn(t)ərˌnæʃəˈnælədi/ The quality, condition, or character of being international; an instance of this.
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internationalism1843
globalism1943
society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > nationalism > [noun] > internationalism > quality, condition, or character
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1825 J. Douglas Advancem. Society in Knowl. & Relig. 32 An Influence, highly favourable to the Grecian States, consisted in their Internationality.
1864 Daily Tel. 7 June A French race-course is not like an English one. Internationality is not yet so perfect.
1875 Fraser's Mag. May 655/1 This is pre-eminently the age of internationalities and enlightenment.
1881 T. Hardy Laodicean III. vi. v. 262 From a representative of the new aristocracy of internationality to a representative of the old aristocracy of exclusiveness.
1901 W. D. Howells Heroines of Fiction II. 140 That piquance of internationality which the American novelists..have since invoked.
1965 Life 20 Aug. 75/2 An internationality that increases daily (‘You can't..tell American teen-agers from European ones until they open their mouths’).
2009 Rotarian July 36/2 The internationality of it was wonderful—people from countries we'd only heard of, playing and working together.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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