chauvinism
C2CEFR level
50/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister
Excessive or aggressive loyalty to one's own group, nation or sex, coupled with contempt for others.
His national chauvinism was so blinkered that he genuinely believed no foreign product could ever be superior.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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