Aryanism

English

Etymology

From Aryan +‎ -ism.

Noun

Aryanism (countable and uncountable, plural Aryanisms)

1. The ideological belief in the superiority of a defined Aryan race, particularly as an element of Nazism.
   • 1998, A. Leoussi, Nationalism and Classicism, page 93:

     The religious significance of Aryanism consisted, first, in the racial division of mankind which it proposed, and second, in its advocacy of the religio-cultural orientation appropriate to the Aryan nations.