nationality

Meaning

Noun

• National, i.e. ethnic and/or cultural, character or identity.
• Nationalism or patriotism.
• National origin or identity; legal membership of a particular nation or state, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise.
• A people sharing a common origin, culture and/or language, and possibly constituting a nation-state.
• Political existence, independence or unity as a national entity.

Related

Similar words

• affiliation, allegiance, ancestry, citizenship, descent, enfranchisement, ethnicity, national status, naturalization, origin, parentage, race, residence, status
• ancestry, color, colour, ethnicity, identity, origin
• clan, confederation, cultural group, culture, denomination, ethnic group, ethnicity, faith, group, nation, people, persuasion, race, sect, tribe
• autarchy, autonomy, freedom, independence, liberty, nationhood, self-determination, self-government, self-rule, separation, sovereignty
• nationalism, patriotic sentiment, patriotism,

Origin

• From national + -ity, perhaps after French nationalité; ultimately from Latin nātio.