[chau.vin.ism] n [F chauvinisme, fr. Nicolas Chauvin, character noted for his excessive patriotism and devotion to Napoleon in Theodore and Hippolyte Cogniard's play La Cocarde tricolore (1831)] (1870) 1: excessive or blind patriotism--compare jingoism
2: undue partiality or attachment to a group or place to which one belongs or has belonged
3: an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex; also: behavior expressive of such an attitude -- chau.vin.ist n or adj -- chau.vin.is.tic adj -- chau.vin.is.ti.cal.ly adv