orientalism

English

Alternative forms

• Orientalism

Etymology

From French orientalisme, from oriental (“eastern, Oriental”). Equivalent to Oriental +‎ -ism.

Noun

orientalism (countable and uncountable, plural orientalisms)

1. (art, architecture, literature) The tendency to represent eastern subjects, to assume stylistical characteristics original of the East.
2. An Eastern word, expression, or custom.
3. (postcolonialism) A patronizing Western attitude towards Middle Eastern, Asian, and North African societies.

Derived terms

• techno-orientalism

 

Translations

the tendency to represent eastern subjects

• Arabic: اِسْتِشْراق m (istišrāq)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 東方主義／东方主义 (dōngfāngzhǔyì)

• Finnish: orientalismi, itämaalaisuus
• French: orientalisme (fr) m
• German: Orientalismus m
• Hindi: प्राच्यवाद m (prācyavād)
• Hungarian: orientalizmus
• Irish: oirthearachas m
• Italian: orientalismo (it)
• Japanese: オリエンタリズム (orientarizumu)
• Korean: 오리엔탈리즘 (orientallijeum)
• Malay: faham ketimuran, faham orientalis, orientalisme
• Persian: خاورگرایی (xâvargarâyi)
• Polish: orientalizm m
• Portuguese: orientalismo (pt) m
• Romanian: orientalism (ro) n
• Russian: ориентали́зм (ru) m (orijentalízm)
• Spanish: orientalismo m
• Turkish: oryantalizm (tr)
• Ukrainian: орієнталі́зм m (orijentalízm)
• Urdu: اِسْتِشْراق (istiśrāq)

Anagrams

• eliminators, misrelation, normalities, relationism

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French orientalisme. Equivalent to oriental +‎ -ism.

Noun

orientalism n (uncountable)

1. orientalism

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	orientalism	orientalismul
genitive-dative	orientalism	orientalismului
vocative	orientalismule