单词 | coloniality |
释义 | colonialityn. 1. a. The fact or state of being a colony; colonial quality or character.In quot. 1845 in anti-coloniality. ΚΠ 1845 [implied in: Morning Chron. (Sydney) 27 Dec. It is their daily occupation to vilify the Governor..for his anti-coloniality.]. 1862 Austral. & N.Z. Gaz. 22 Feb. Its [sc. Australia] sons, adopted or native,..regard their common ‘coloniality’ as a ground for hearty greeting. 1867 Atlantic Monthly May 637/2 Mrs. Alston preserves the memory of an America long past away..of a polite and well-bred coloniality. 1901 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 159 It does very much matter that in each stage of our advance from coloniality we have had adequate expression in our poetry. 1986 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Trav. in Hyper Reality i. 30 Local historiography celebrates these copies as the documentation of their own ‘coloniality’. b. The principle, policy, or practice of colonizing another country and bringing its inhabitants under political control; colonialism. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > specific policies or advocacy of > [noun] > colonialism colonialism1791 colonialization1874 coloniality1988 1988 Mod. Chinese Lit. 4 235 China's continuing relation to coloniality and imperialism. 2018 D. Gebrial in G. K. Bhambra et al. Decolonising University ii. 22 The goal was never to ‘no-platform’ or ‘erase’ Rhodes—it was to platform the coloniality he represented and its lasting impact.., subjecting it to the critical scrutiny it has thus far eluded. 2. Biology. In animals (esp. birds) and other organisms: the tendency to form colonies (colony n. 10a, 10b); the formation of colonies. ΚΠ 1957 Papers on Game Res. No. 18 28 Various forms of social display, territoriality, coloniality, flocking, etc. 1975 Ecology 56 333 Such phenomena as coloniality, territoriality, and flocking all seem to adapt organisms to particular patterns of resource availability or predator avoidance. 1989 M. D. Beecher et al. in R. J. Dooling & S. H. Hulse Compar., Psychol. Audition ix. 280 Cliff swallows show many adaptations for coloniality which barn swallows do not. 1995 C. Nielsen Animal Evol. iii. 19 The most important synapomorphy of the metazoans is their multicellularity, as opposed to the coloniality shown by many choanoflagellates. 2007 R. M. R. Barclay & A. Kurta in M. J. Lacki et al. Bats in Forests ii. 19 The trade-off between the costs and benefits of coloniality likely varies among species. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < n.1845 |
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