imperialism en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (General-American) audio
- /ɪmˈpɪə.ɹi.ə.lɪ.z(ə)m/ (Australia, Received-Pronunciation)
- /ɪmˈpɪ.ɹi.əˌlɪ.zəm/ (General-American)
Etymology
Etymology tree English imperial Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English imperialism From imperial + -ism.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The policy of forcefully extending a nation's authority by territorial gain or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations.
Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.
2008 June 1, A. Dirk Moses, “Preface”, in Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page x:
- (countable, historical, uncountable) The means of forming, maintaining, or expanding an empire.
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(countable, derogatory, figuratively, uncountable) Any undue extension of political, intellectual, or other forms of authority, particularly in regards to systems that benefit the Western world at the cost of the Global South.
The moral imperialism of the Supreme Court did not end with Chief Justice Warren’s resignation nor with the departures of the Justices who made up his distinctive majority.
1990, Robert H. Bork, The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law, →ISBN, page 101:By contrast, economists of the Chicago School approach [sociology] from a standpoint of the imperialism of economics, in the sense that they advance the study of substructure into the areas of the study of superstructure, by researching it as economics.
1998, Michio Morishima, “Foreword: Joseph A. Schumpeter (1883–1950) and Yasuma Takata (1883–1972)”, in Joseph Schumpeter, Yasuma Takata, Power or Pure Economics?, →ISBN, page xxxvi:[…] her analysis of the discourse on private belief […] “reduced” and thus “explained away” my intuitions as being something other than what I experience them to be for myself. It was therefore the imperialism of her method that I claimed to be particularly offensive.
2015, Russell T. McCutcheon, A Modest Proposal on Method: Essaying the Study of Religion, →ISBN, page 33:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| imperialisms | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
cyberimperialism · neo-imperialism · eco-imperialism · anti-imperialism · hyperimperialism · neoimperialism · disimperialism · sub-imperialism · social imperialism · proto-imperialism · subimperialism · cultural imperialism · Euroimperialism · ultraimperialism · counter-imperialism
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Translations (86)
bn সাম্রাজ্যবাদ (the policy of extending power, by force) · az империализм (the policy of extending power, by force) · cy imperialaeth (the policy of extending power, by force) · be імпэрыялі́зм (the policy of extending power, by force) · pl imperializm (the policy of extending power, by force) · is heimsvaldastefna (the policy of extending power, by force) · ro imperialism (the policy of extending power, by force) · hu imperializmus (the policy of extending power, by force) · mn империализм (the policy of extending power, by force) · ast imperialismu (the policy of extending power, by force) · sh империјалѝзам (the policy of extending power, by force) · nb imperialisme (the policy of extending power, by force) · ga impiriúlachas (the policy of extending power, by force) · la imperialismus (the policy of extending power, by force) · vi chủ nghĩa đế quốc (the policy of extending power, by force) · sh imperijalìzam (the policy of extending power, by force) · mn эзэрхэг түрэмгий (the policy of extending power, by force) · ca imperialisme (the policy of extending power, by force) · is imperíalismi (the policy of extending power, by force) · uz imperializm (the policy of extending power, by force) · gl imperialismo (the policy of extending power, by force) · pa ਸਾਮਰਾਜਵਾਦ (the policy of extending power, by force) · sl imperializem (the policy of extending power, by force) · km ចក្រពត្តិនិយម (the policy of extending power, by force) · hy իմպերիալիզմ (the policy of extending power, by force) · da imperialisme (the policy of extending power, by force) · nan-hbl 帝國主義 /帝国主义 (the policy of extending power, by force) · nl imperialisme (the policy of extending power, by force) · bg империали́зъм (the policy of extending power, by force) · mk империјали́зам (the policy of extending power, by force) · tk imperializm (the policy of extending power, by force) · lv imperiālisms (the policy of extending power, by force) · ur سامْراجِیَت (the policy of extending power, by force) · id imperialisme (the policy of extending power, by force) · ug جاھانئگىرلىك (the policy of extending power, by force) · uz империализм (the policy of extending power, by force) · ja 帝国主義 (the policy of extending power, by force) · sv imperialism (the policy of extending power, by force) · it imperialismo (the policy of extending power, by force) · ka იმპერიალიზმი (the policy of extending power, by force) · sw ubeberu (the policy of extending power, by force) · fi imperialismi (the policy of extending power, by force) · be імперыялі́зм (the policy of extending power, by force) · tg империализм (the policy of extending power, by force) · ko 제국주의 (the policy of extending power, by force) · mn ᠢᠮᠫᠧᠷᠢᠶᠠᠯᠢᠰᠮ (the policy of extending power, by force) · lo ຈັກກະພັດນິຍົມ (the policy of extending power, by force) · sq imperializëm (the policy of extending power, by force) · lo ລັດທິຈັກກະພັດນິຍົມ (the policy of extending power, by force) · fa-ira اَمْپِرْیالیسْم (the policy of extending power, by force) · ug ئىمپېرىيالىزم (the policy of extending power, by force) · el ιμπεριαλισμός (the policy of extending power, by force) · mn ᠡᠵᠡᠷᠬᠡᠭ᠌ ᠲᠦᠷᠢᠮᠡᠭᠡᠶ (the policy of extending power, by force) · fr impérialisme (the policy of extending power, by force) · ps امپرياليزم (the policy of extending power, by force) · th ลัทธิจักรวรรดินิยม (the policy of extending power, by force) · tl imperyalismo (the policy of extending power, by force) · yi אימפּעריאַליזם (the policy of extending power, by force) · uk імперіалі́зм (the policy of extending power, by force) · pt imperialismo (the policy of extending power, by force) · cmn 帝國主義 /帝国主义 (the policy of extending power, by force) · tr emperyalizm (the policy of extending power, by force) · kmr emperyalîzm (the policy of extending power, by force) · ps سامراج (the policy of extending power, by force) · ky империализм (the policy of extending power, by force) · af imperialisme (the policy of extending power, by force) · km លទ្ធិចក្រពត្តិនិយម (the policy of extending power, by force) · de Imperialismus (the policy of extending power, by force) · tt империализм (the policy of extending power, by force) · he אִימְפֶּרְיָאלִיזְם (the policy of extending power, by force) · et imperialism (the policy of extending power, by force) · cs imperialismus (the policy of extending power, by force) · lt imperializmas (the policy of extending power, by force) · ar اِسْتِعْمَارِيَّة (the policy of extending power, by force) · hy կայսերապաշտություն (the policy of extending power, by force) · my နယ်ချဲ့ဝါဒ (the policy of extending power, by force) · ru империали́зм (the policy of extending power, by force) · th จักรวรรดินิยม (the policy of extending power, by force) · es imperialismo (the policy of extending power, by force) · ar إِمْبِرْيَالِيَّة (the policy of extending power, by force) · hi साम्राज्यवाद (the policy of extending power, by force) · kk империализм (the policy of extending power, by force) · mt imperjaliżmu (the policy of extending power, by force) · yue 帝國主義 /帝国主义 (the policy of extending power, by force) · sk imperializmus (the policy of extending power, by force) · az imperializm (the policy of extending power, by force)