boosterismn.
/ˈbuːstərɪz(ə)m/ colloquial (originally U.S.).
A tendency to ‘boost’ or seek to raise the estimation of (oneself, one's town, product, etc.) by praise; the expression of chauvinism.
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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun]
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boosterism1926
1926 Sat. Evening Post 30 Jan. 16/3 Those who are possessed of the ambition to become liberal..wince when accused of being orthodox or of failing to comply with the ready-made regulations of the cult; and so they straightway quit thinking for themselves and blush at the imputation of boosterism.
1935 M. M. Atwater Crime in Corn-weather x. 70 He kissed his wife, grabbed his Panama, and went off downtown, feeling the springs of boosterism and ballyhoo renewed within him.
1948 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 8 Apr. 12/2 ‘Boosterism’ will be out when a new Maryland Department of Information begins to warm up the typewriters this year.
1966 Eng. Stud. 47 207 No reader of Whitman..can gainsay..his attitudes of unrelieved bluffness, heartiness, boosterism, boasting, [etc.].
1973 Times 21 Mar. 21/5 A blending of German thoroughness and American small town boosterism.
1977 Rolling Stone 19 May 32/2 The Exposition was, in all, boggling—a nonstop blend of the crassest kind of trade-show boosterism and the fresh-scrubbed naiveté of a high-school science fair.
1985 Times 14 Sept. 8/3 Official resentment of this Soviet boosterism was beginning to show.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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