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Asianisms

Asianisms is the plural of Asianism.

Meaning of Asianism

Noun

Asianism (countable and uncountable, plural Asianisms)

  1. (historical, uncountable) 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
  2. 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

Questions about Asianisms

What is Asianisms the plural of?
Asianisms is the plural of Asianism.

Words near Asianisms in the dictionary

  1. Asianess
  2. Asianic
  3. Asianisation
  4. Asianisations
  5. Asianism
  6. Asianisms
  7. Asianist
  8. Asianists
  9. Asianization
  10. Asianizations
  11. Asianize

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