Slavness

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English

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Etymology

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From Slav +‎ -ness.

Noun

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Slavness (uncountable)

  1. 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.
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