Synonyms for nationality
ˌnæʃ əˈnæl ɪ tina·tion·al·i·ty

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1. nationalitynoun

   A people sharing a common origin, culture and/or language, and possibly constituting a nation-state.

   Synonyms:
   confederation, ethnicity, race, tribe, sect, clan, denomination, people, nation, faith, cultural group, persuasion, culture, ethnic group, group

2. nationalitynoun

   Political existence, independence or unity as a national entity.

   Synonyms:
   self-government, freedom, liberty, independence, autarchy, self-determination, self-rule, nationhood, autonomy, separation, sovereignty

3. nationalitynoun

   Nationalism or patriotism.

   Synonyms:
   patriotism, patriotic sentiment, nationalism

4. nationalitynoun

   Synonyms:
   ethnicity, naturalization, allegiance, citizenship, enfranchisement, race, descent, residence, national status, ancestry, affiliation, parentage, status, origin

5. nationalitynoun

   Synonyms:
   ancestry, color, colour, ethnicity, identity, origin

Princeton's WordNet

1. nationalitynoun

   people having common origins or traditions and often comprising a nation

   "immigrants of the same nationality often seek each other out"; "such images define their sense of nationality"

2. nationalitynoun

   the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization

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1. nationalitynoun

   Synonyms:
   national character

2. nationalitynoun

   Synonyms:
   state, realm, nation, commonwealth

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1. List of paraphrases for "nationality":

   citizenship, nationalities, nationalité, sexual, citizen, nationals, nationhood, sex, national

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1. Barack Obama:

   This is yet another reminder that the world must unite. We must be together regardless of nationality or race or faith in fighting against the scourge of terrorism.

2. Jeb Bush:

   We've stood for people, irrespective of their nationality, their ethnicity, their race, color, creed, it doesn't matter, if they embrace a set of shared values, everybody can be as American as everybody else.

3. Donald Clarke:

   The only way the hockey players could become Chinese citizens is to become naturalized, and under China's nationality law, they need to renounce their foreign citizenship.

4. President Obama:

   This is yet another reminder that the world must unite, we must be together, regardless of nationality or race or faith, in fighting the scourge of terrorism.

5. Harriet Beecher Stowe:

   The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.