English Explanatory Dictionary

westernism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Something that is characteristic of the western part of a region.
noun
  1. The ideology and culture of the West.
  2. An 19th-century intellectual ideology which saw Russia's development as dependent upon the adoption of Western European technology and liberal government.

Word forms

westernism westernisms

Etymology

From western + -ism.

Synonyms

Occidentalism
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