Asiaticism en · NOUN
Etymology
From Asiatic + -ism.
Meanings
- (countable, dated) Something peculiar to Asia or Asians.
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(dated, uncountable) Manners similar to those ascribed to Asians.
[…] 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 […]
2009 [1918], Ernst Bertram, translated by Robert E. Norton, Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology, →ISBN, page 77:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asiaticisms | Number=Plur | lexicographic |