Dictionary

westernization en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English western Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English -ization English westernization From western + -ization.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The process of assimilation, by a society, of the customs and practices of western culture.
   • I would argue that Westernization as a cultural attribute was less important than the fact that these men had skills disposing them to what rule-based government and^([sic]) fear 'demagocracy' ) 1964, The journal of Asian studies, volume 24, page 309:
   • According to anthropology professor Peter Rigby, the Maasai's resistance to Westernization and their reluctance to enter the market system is ethnosuicide. 2005, Randall Elam Mayes, The Cybernetics of Kenyan Running: Hurry, Hurry Has No Blessing, page 92:

Forms

Antonyms

dewesternization

Translations (38)

es occidentalización (assimilation of the western culture) · ar تَغْرِيب (assimilation of the western culture) · pt ocidentalização (assimilation of the western culture) · ru американиза́ция (assimilation of the western culture) · nl verwestersing (assimilation of the western culture) · be вэстэрніза́цыя (assimilation of the western culture) · uk вестерніза́ція (assimilation of the western culture) · cmn 西方化 (assimilation of the western culture) · ru вестерниза́ция (assimilation of the western culture) · it occidentalizzazione (assimilation of the western culture) · be вестэрніза́цыя (assimilation of the western culture) · de Verwestlichung (assimilation of the western culture) · ja 西洋化 (assimilation of the western culture) · mk озападување (assimilation of the western culture) · tr batılılaşma (assimilation of the western culture) · cmn 歐美化 /欧美化 (assimilation of the western culture) · ko 구미화 (assimilation of the western culture) · ru европеиза́ция (assimilation of the western culture) · ca occidentalització (assimilation of the western culture) · hi पश्चिमीकरण (assimilation of the western culture) · fi länsimaistuminen (assimilation of the western culture) · he הִתְמַעַרְבוּת (assimilation of the western culture) · pl okcydentalizacja (assimilation of the western culture) · fi länsimaistaminen (assimilation of the western culture) · ja 欧米化 (assimilation of the western culture) · ru оксидентализа́ция (assimilation of the western culture) · ko 서양화 (assimilation of the western culture) · ru западниза́ция (assimilation of the western culture) · fa غربگرایی (assimilation of the western culture) · ug غەربلىشىش (assimilation of the western culture) · bg уестърниза́ция (assimilation of the western culture) · el δυτικοποίηση (assimilation of the western culture) · cs westernizace (assimilation of the western culture) · nl verwesterlijking (assimilation of the western culture) · cmn 西化 (assimilation of the western culture) · mk вестернизација (assimilation of the western culture) · pl westernizacja (assimilation of the western culture) · fr occidentalisation (assimilation of the western culture)