Internationality

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    internationalness countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    quality of being international in scope wordnet
  3. 3
    A people sharing a common origin, culture, or language, but not excluded to any nation-state. countable, uncountable

    "In other words, the future does not belong to an internationality — to people who all speak Esperanto, all live the same life, but the very opposite is true."

Example

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"This implies that the Interlingua-English Dictionary — which represents a collection of the international vocabulary — may be expected to prove useful from the viewpoint of most, if not all, auxiliary-language systems now extant, in so far as they are based on, or are influenced by, the principle of actual internationality of words."

Etymology

From international + -ity.

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