Aryanismn.
/ˈɛːrɪənɪz(ə)m/, /ˈɑːrɪənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈɛriəˌnɪzəm/, /ˈɑriəˌnɪzəm/ 1.
a. The culture or language of the prehistoric Aryan peoples. See Aryan adj. 1.Now much less common than sense 2.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European
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1850 Jrnl. Indian Archipel. & Eastern Asia 4 341 The old tribes..must have continued for a long time to be influenced by the proto-Aryan civilisations and languages. The higher Aryanism must also have greatly influenced them before they were finally conquered.
1888 tr. J. E. Renan Hist. People Israel i. i. 7 Strict monogamy was the law of primitive Aryanism.
2009 M. Toumin From Ling. to Sociolinguistic Reconstruction vii. 204 Archaeological evidence suggests that Aryanism was established quite early in the Pundra–Vardhana (or Barendra) region, which is today's north-central Bengal.
b. The theory of, or belief in, the historical existence of a single Aryan race and language from which all Indo-European peoples and languages are descended. Now historical except as implied in sense 2.See note at Aryan adj. 1b.
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1866 Anthropol. Rev. 4 372 The partisans of the Aryanism of the modern French have attributed to the Aryan race a numerical preponderance over the pre-Celtic race.
1905 Harmsworth Encycl. I. 403/1 The advocacy of the opposite theory is termed Aryanism—that Europe owes its culture and civilization to the Aryan, a tall, blond dolichocephalic race represented by the modern Germans, Scandinavians, and English.
2012 Jrnl. Brit. Stud. 51 917 ‘Aryanism’, however, contained within itself a significant problem: how to understand languages that were demonstrably non-Indo-European.
2. A theory asserting the cultural and racial superiority of white non-Jewish people, esp. those of northern European origin or descent, often on the basis of regarding them as descendants of a historical Aryan race. From the 1920s chiefly in the context of Nazi (and other far-right) ideology. Cf. Aryan adj. 1b, 2.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > racism > Nazism or Aryanism
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Nazism1930
Nazidom1933
society > society and the community > social attitudes > racial attitudes > [noun] > racism > Nazism or Aryanism > theory
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1904 Amer. Antiquarian 26 183 One of the very best recent discussions of the questions involved in the question of ‘race heredity’, ‘higher and lower races’, ‘Aryanism’, etc.
1925 Nation (N.Y.) 102 516/1 The transition from Aryanism to Nordicism in Germany.
1934 Times Educ. Suppl. 6 Jan. i/2 The brutalities of the new régime..and the solemn absurdities of ‘Aryanism’ shocked outside nations.
2007 P. Crook Darwin's Coat-tails ii. 22 Conservative-cum-totalitarian ideas arising out of evolution, Nietzschean, and Aryanism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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