matriotism

Meaning

Noun

• School, hometown, or parish pride or loyalty, as opposed to nationalism or patriotism.
• Love or celebration of a woman's influence upon society; the female equivalent to male patriotism.
• Love of the motherland, as opposed to patriotism as love of the fatherland.
• Pacifist patriotism; love of society as opposed to love of the state.
• Devotion to Mother Earth, ecology, sustainability, peace, and the survival of the human species for as long as possible.

Origin

• , later reanalysed as being derived from by analogy with patriotism. Though attested since the mid-19th century, the continued placement of the word within quotation marks suggests it is often regarded as a neologism.