单词 | occidentalism |
释义 | occidentalismn. Occidental quality, style, character, or spirit; Western customs, institutions, characteristics, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of specific region > [noun] > western person > westernism occidentalism1839 Westernism1843 1839 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 46 105 The Sultan Mahmoud and his Turkish subjects..have no taste for..the occidentalism, the journalism, the budgetism, the parliamentaryism of the 19th Century. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. v. 514 There is a..confusion of uncongenial elements, of Orientalism and Occidentalism, in the language [sc. ecclesiastical Latin]. 1890 Athenæum 15 Feb. 206/2 The curious transition from Orientalism to Occidentalism, of which contemporary Japan is the theatre. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 20 Sept. 2/1 The houses are a mixture of Russian, incomplete and untidy Occidentalism, with Caucasian and Turkish Orientalism. 1977 J. Cleary High Road v. 187 He was limited by his own Occidentalism: he had suppressed too much of his half-caste mother. 1991 E. Sedgwick Tendencies (1993) 150 The very patency of Wilde's gay-affirming and gay-occluding Orientalism renders it difficult to turn back and see the outlines of the sexual body and the national body sketched by his occidentalism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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