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say it: in-tur-NASH-uh-nuh-liz-uhm
internationalism is a noun meaning "the doctrine that nations should cooperate because their common interests are more important than their differences". It carries 2 recorded senses.
the doctrine that nations should cooperate because their common interests are more important than their differences
quality of being international in scope
“he applauded the internationality of scientific terminology”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for internationalism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.