Asiaticism
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Something peculiar to Asia or Asians. countable, dated
- 2 Manners similar to those ascribed to Asians. dated, uncountable
"[…] he writes in The Will to Power that there is something fundamentally immoderate, dissolute, Asiatic in the Greek character: that the bravery of the Greek consists in the battle with their own Asiaticism […]"
Example
More examples"[…] he writes in The Will to Power that there is something fundamentally immoderate, dissolute, Asiatic in the Greek character: that the bravery of the Greek consists in the battle with their own Asiaticism […]"
Etymology
From Asiatic + -ism.
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