Meanings
- uncountablethe act or process of making Finnish.
The Finnishization of the East has surpassed even the dreams of the Greater Finland propagandists.
2001, Jukka Siikala, Departures: How Societies Distribute Their People, →ISBN2 more examples
The society advocated Finnishization, an end to Swedish bilingualism, and a barrier to Swedish “contamination,” positing the existence of a Finnish race that mixed Nordic, east Baltic, and Finnish ethnic elements.
1996, Stanley G. Payne, A History of Fascism, 1914–1945, University of Wisconsin Pres, →ISBN, page 311No secret was made of the Finnic cultural roots of Karelia, and indeed the Finnishization of the Soviet Karelian Republic was, for some time, officially promoted as an instrument of modernization and administrative development.
2012, Heikki Eskelinen, The EU-Russia Borderland: New Contexts for Regional Co-operation, Routledge, →ISBN, page 173
Origin
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Finnishization. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Finnishization
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