Noun
Serbism (countable and uncountable, plural Serbisms)
- (countable) A linguistic feature of Serbian language, especially a Serbian idiom or phrasing that appears in some other language.
- (usually uncountable) An attitude, custom, or other feature that is characteristic for Serbs.
- (usually uncountable) Esteem for and emulation of cultural and ethnic heritage of Serbs.
- (uncountable) Nationalistic ideology declaring that being a Serb should be the highest cultural or political priority.
1935, Henri Pozzi, Black Hand Over Europe: Consisting of War is Coming Again:In the meantime, Serb professors and diplomats were affirming the integral Serbism of Bulgarian Macedonia, and thus peacefully paving the way for war.
1979, Lazo Mojsov, The Macedonian Historical Themes:"A battle lost to the Bulgarians in Macedonia will be for Serbia and Serbism the Kosovo Battle lost a second time round.
2002, Jasna Dragović-Soso, Saviours of the Nation: Serbia's Intellectual Opposition and the Revival of Nationalism:Only a small group of scholars has made intellectuals and their national ideas the object of their analyses, and they examine principally the evolving visions of 'Yugoslavism', the various understandings of 'Serbism' and the complementarity ...
2003, Dejan Djokić, Yugoslavism: Histories of a Failed Idea, 1918-1992:His Yugoslavism was replaced by a version of Serbism, according to which the Serbs should strive for a predominantly Serb state, at the same time preserving Serb national identity of all the Serbs forced, by foreign powers, to live outside that ...