matriotism
School, hometown, or parish pride or loyalty, as opposed to nationalism or patriotism.
uncountable
I am delighted with your matriotism. "Rome, Venice, Cambridge!" I take it for an ascending scale, Rome being the first step and Cambridge the glowing apex.
The love or celebration of a woman's influence upon society; the female equivalent to male patriotism.
uncountable
Patriotism has incited men to live and die for the country and government; but Matriotism has impelled women to live and work for mankind. […] The Matriotism of household economics needs to be recognized as necessary for the whole of society.
Pacifist patriotism; the love of society as opposed to the love of the state.
uncountable
Matriotism is the opposite of patriotism. A yin to its yang, a counterforce to the violent militarism of patriotism. […] a Matriot would never send her child or another mother’s child to fight nonsense wars. She would march into war herself to protect her child from harm. […] Patriots cower behind the flag and send young people to die for the sake of material wealth.
Where it comes from
Blend of alma mater + patriotism, later reanalyzed as being derived from matri- by analogy with patriotism. Though attested since the mid-19th century, the continued placement of the word within quotation marks suggests it is often regarded as a neologism.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry matriotism (CC BY-SA 4.0).