orientalism

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French orientalisme, from oriental (“eastern, Oriental”).

Noun

orientalism (countable and uncountable, plural orientalisms)

1. In the figurative arts, the tendency to represent eastern subjects, to assume stylistical characteristics original of the East.
2. An Eastern word, expression, or custom.

Translations

the tendency to represent eastern subjects

• Arabic: الاستشراق
• Hungarian: orientalizmus
• Irish: oirthearachas m
• Italian: orientalismo (it)
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• Malay: faham ketimuran, faham orientalis, orientalisme
• Portuguese: orientalismo m
• Romanian: orientalism (ro) n

Anagrams

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