CHAUVINISM

noun Etymology: French ~e, from Nicolas Chauvin, character noted for his excessive patriotism and devotion to Napoleon in Théodore and Hippolyte Cogniard's play La Cocarde tricolore (1831) Date: 1851 excessive or blind patriotism, undue partiality or attachment to a group or place to which one belongs or has belonged, an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex, chauvinist noun or adjective chauvinistic adjective chauvinistically adverb