jingoism

Other forms of jingoism

plural

jingoisms·

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.

Questions about jingoism

What does jingoism mean?

jingoism means "an appeal intended to arouse patriotic emotions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jingoism?

jingoism has 4 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /ˈdʒɪŋˌɡoʊɪzəm/.

What is another word for jingoism?

Close synonyms include flag waving, chauvinism, superpatriotism, ultranationalism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jingoism a common word?

jingoism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.