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Slavness
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English
Etymology
From en Slav ness.
Noun
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The quality of being Slavic, or belonging to the Slavs in terms of identity.
en 1999 J. Pettifer The New Macedonian Question 51 they continue to mirror-image the Greeks in their obsession with antiquity and in downgrading the Slavness of contemporary Macedonians.
en 2007 Edyta M. Bojanowska Nikolai Gogol: Between Ukrainian and Russian Nationalism 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.
Related terms
en Slavdom
en Slavhood