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noun
The quality of being cosmopolitan.
The idea that all of humanity belongs to a single moral community.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: cosmopolitanness
Antonyms: tribalism, nativism
noun
The quality of being cosmopolitan.
Transnationalism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, sometimes, uncountable
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Synonyms: cosmopolitanness
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The quality of being cosmopolitan.
Transnationalism.
Jewishness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, euphemistic, sometimes, uncountable
Synonyms: cosmopolitanness
Antonyms: none provided
History
From cosmopolitan + -ism. The sense referring obliquely to Jewishness comes from the long era in which all Jews lived in the Jewish diaspora because Jews had been banished from the ancient Jewish homeland and no new homeland yet existed. In Soviet use it was rooted in fear of transnationalism generally but took on coded or dogwhistle antisemitic qualities that were not explicitly separable from the generality.
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