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Asiaticisms

Asiaticisms is the plural of Asiaticism.

Meaning of Asiaticism

Noun

Asiaticism (countable and uncountable, plural Asiaticisms)

  1. (countable, dated) Something peculiar to Asia or Asians.
  2. (dated, uncountable) Manners similar to those ascribed to Asians.
    • […] he writes in The Will to Power that there is something fundamentally immoderate, dissolute, Asiatic in the Greek character: that the bravery of the Greek consists in the battle with their own Asiaticism […]2009 [1918], Ernst Bertram, translated by Robert E. Norton, Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology, →ISBN, page 77

Questions about Asiaticisms

What is Asiaticisms the plural of?
Asiaticisms is the plural of Asiaticism.

Words near Asiaticisms in the dictionary

  1. Asiatic wildcat
  2. Asiatic wildcats
  3. Asiatical
  4. Asiatically
  5. Asiaticism
  6. Asiaticisms
  7. Asiaticization
  8. Asiaticize
  9. Asiaticized
  10. Asiaticizes
  11. Asiaticizing

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