Asiaticism

English

Etymology

Asiatic +‎ -ism

Noun

Asiaticism (countable and uncountable, plural Asiaticisms)

1. (dated, countable) Something peculiar to Asia or Asians.
2. (dated, uncountable) Manners similar to those ascribed to Asians.
   • 2009 [1918], Ernst Bertram, translated by Robert E. Norton, Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology, →ISBN, page 77:

     […] he writes in The Will to Power that there is something fundamentally immoderate, dissolute, Asiatic in the Greek character: that the bravery of the Greek consists in the battle with their own Asiaticism […]

Usage notes

Asiaticism has often been used in a derogatory fashion, and as with Asiatic (noun) it may now be considered offensive.

Further reading

• “Asiaticism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.