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orienˈtality
[f. L. orientāl-is + -ity.]
The quality or condition of being oriental.
1. The state of being in the eastern part of the sky, or of being visible before sunrise, as a planet.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. vii. 308 The Sunne..hath no power nor efficacie peculiar from its orientality. 1731[see occidentality 1]. 1819Wilson Dict. Astrol. s.v., Orientality is generally meant with respect to the ☉.
2. Eastern style or character.
1761Sterne Tr. Shandy III. xii, There is an orientality in his [curses] we cannot rise up to. 1890Longm. Mag. July 292 The scene [was] most striking in its thorough Orientality. |