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pseudonation

noun

Etymology

From pseudo- + nation.

  1. derived from nātiōnem
  2. derived from nacion
  3. inherited from nacioun
  4. prefixed as pseudonation — “pseudo + nation”

Definitions

  1. An entity that falsely purports or is purported to be a nation.

    • Does Minerva, the name of the ancient Roman goddess of wisdom, seem inappropriate for a pseudonation created by some California promoters?
    • Such a pseudonation will have its political parties split into ethnic or religious branches...
    • Many state nationalisms are based on nothing more than a putative or postulated nation, i.e. a pseudonation–as became very clear after the fact in the cases of the USSR, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and the GDR.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA