Asianism
Asianism noun: an Ancient Greek rhetorical tendency that arose in the third century BC, favouring emotion, bombast and wordplay over austere formality, and distinguished by the use of a prose rhythm.
Noun
Asianism (countable and uncountable, plural Asianisms)
- An Ancient Greek rhetorical tendency that arose in the third century BC, favouring emotion, bombast and wordplay over austere formality, and distinguished by the use of a prose rhythm.
- Antonyms:
- Atticism
- A behaviour or utterance that is characteristic of Asian people.
- […] this historicization that allowed and even forced Chinese intellectuals to develop conceptual linkages to neighboring peoples and that permitted the production of new types of globalisms, Asianisms, and nationalisms.2002, Rebecca E. Karl, Staging the World, page 158
- On that basis, upgradation and delink qualify as quantitative lexical South Asianisms.2009, Andreas Sedlatschek, Contemporary Indian English: Variation and Change, page 86
Antonyms of Asianism
Forms of Asianism
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Origin of Asianism
From Asian + -ism.
Questions about Asianism
- What does Asianism mean?
- Asianism means an Ancient Greek rhetorical tendency that arose in the third century BC, favouring emotion, bombast and wordplay over austere formality, and distinguished by the use of a prose rhythm.
- What part of speech is Asianism?
- Asianism is a noun.
- What is the plural of Asianism?
- The plural of Asianism is Asianisms.
Words near Asianism in the dictionary
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