pan-nationalism

noun

Nationalism that transcends traditional (historical) national identities or boundaries (such as borders) in order to create a single, unified identity.

Meanings

nounpan-nationalism (uncountable)
  1. uncountableNationalism that transcends traditional (historical) national identities or boundaries (such as borders) in order to create a single, unified identity.

    Nationalism is sensitive to the limits of its own security, and tends to withdraw into its own borders at precisely that point when it fears for its sovereignty and when faced with the prospect of being absorbed into a larger pan-nationalism.

    1976, Louis Leo Snyder, Varieties of Nationalism: A Comparative Study, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, →ISBN, page 241
    2 more examples

    Consequently, though Russia must ultimately recover—and, organized and officered by Germans, her recovery may well be rapid—the immediate future in Central Asia and the Middle East would appear to lie at least as much with Islamic pan-nationalism as with Bolshevism.

    1922 January 29, H. G. Martin, “India and the Next War”, in O. W. White, editor, Journal of the United Service Institution of India, volume LII (52), number 226, United Service Institution of India, page 326

    A brief overview of the three pan-nationalist trends of thought around African, Islamic, and Asian identities shows that pan-nationalism became possible as part of globalizing discourses during the high age of imperialism from the 1880s to the 1920s.

    2013, Cemil Aydin, “Conclusion”, in John Breuilly, editor, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Nationalism, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 688

Origin

Translations

Catalan pannacionalisme
  • pannacionalismeTranslations
Chinese Mandarin 泛民族主義 /泛民族主义
  • 泛民族主義 /泛民族主义 (fànmínzúzhǔyì)Translations
German Pannationalismus
  • PannationalismusTranslations
Hindi अखिल राष्ट्रवाद
  • अखिल राष्ट्रवाद (akhil rāṣṭravād)Translations
Korean 범국민주의
  • 범국민주의 (beomgungminjuui)Translations
Turkish panmilliyetçilik
  • panmilliyetçilikTranslations
Cite this entry
APA

pan-nationalism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pan-nationalism

MLA

“pan-nationalism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pan-nationalism. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pan-nationalism,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pan-nationalism.

Source: pan-nationalism on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.