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Afghanistanisms

Afghanistanisms is the plural of Afghanistanism.

Meaning of Afghanistanism

Noun

Afghanistanism (countable and uncountable, plural Afghanistanisms)

  1. The practice of concentrating on problems in distant parts of the world while ignoring controversial local issues.
    • I don't wish to belabor this subject of Afghanistanism, this business of taking forthright stands on elections in Costa Rica, while the uncollected local garbage reeks beneath the editor's window.1948, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, “Editorial Page Panel”, in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, American Society of Newspaper Editors, page 73

Questions about Afghanistanisms

What is Afghanistanisms the plural of?
Afghanistanisms is the plural of Afghanistanism.

Words near Afghanistanisms in the dictionary

  1. Afghanising
  2. Afghanistan
  3. Afghanistani
  4. Afghanistanis
  5. Afghanistanism
  6. Afghanistanisms
  7. Afghanisthan
  8. afghanite
  9. afghanites
  10. Afghanization
  11. Afghanize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Afghanistanisms (page history and authors); Afghanistanism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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