Asiaticism

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Something peculiar to Asia or Asians. countable, dated
  2. 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

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"[…] 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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