Occidentalism
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The habits and attitudes of westerners. uncountable
"Giving full agency to the Chinese Occidentalists, she argues that Occidentalism was a discourse used within the context of domestic politics in post-Mao China as a “strategy of liberation" and a counterdiscourse to the government's ideological domination […]"
- 2 the quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Western civilizations wordnet
- 3 the scholarly knowledge of western cultures and languages and people wordnet
Example
More examples"Giving full agency to the Chinese Occidentalists, she argues that Occidentalism was a discourse used within the context of domestic politics in post-Mao China as a “strategy of liberation" and a counterdiscourse to the government's ideological domination […]"
Etymology
From occidental + -ism.