nationality

1. (now rare) National, i.e. ethnic and/or cultural, character or identity.Examples: "[…]permit me to say that the Harranians were Arabs and that the Arabs in occupying Spain and Andalusia did not lose their nationality; they remained Arabs. […] The fact that they preserved their former religion, Sabaeanism, does not mean they should be considered foreign to the Arab nationality."Synonyms: ancestry, color, colour, ethnicity, identity, originarchaic

2. (now rare) Nationalism or patriotism.Examples: "‘You are, to be sure, wonderfully free from that nationality: but so it happens, that you employ the only Scotch shoe-black in London.’"Synonyms: nationalism, patriotic sentiment, patriotismarchaic

3. (obsolete) Political existence, independence or unity as a national entity.Synonyms: autarchy, autonomy, freedom, independence, liberty, nationhood, self-determination, self-governmentobsolete