Slavness
English
Etymology
Slav + -ness
Noun
Slavness (uncountable)
- The quality of being Slavic, or belonging to the Slavs in terms of identity.
- 1999, J. Pettifer, The New Macedonian Question (page 51)
- […] they continue to mirror-image the Greeks in their obsession with antiquity and in downgrading the Slavness of contemporary Macedonians.
- 2007, Edyta M. Bojanowska, Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism (page 116)
- Gogol's friend Mikhail Pogodin, who specialized in the topic, accepted the Norman theory yet argued for the basic Slavness of early Rusian culture.
- 1999, J. Pettifer, The New Macedonian Question (page 51)
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) in territorial terms: the area inhabited by Slavic peoples
Related terms
- Slavdom
- Slavhood