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cosmopolitanism

/ˌkɑzməˈpɑlɪtənɪzm̩/

cosmopolitanism noun: the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single moral community.

Noun

cosmopolitanism (countable and uncountable, plural cosmopolitanisms)

  1. The idea that all of humanity belongs to a single moral community.
    • The philosophy of cosmopolitanism underlies theories of global citizenship. Cosmopolitanism is the ability to balance a local and global identity. A cosmopolitan individual engages meaningfully with different cultures and feels at home in the world.2013 November 25, Caroline Ferguson, “What kind of global citizens are teachers creating?”, in The Guardian
    • To present the world anthropologies project (WA), this article explores the existence of three kinds of anthropological cosmopolitanisms and cosmopolitics: imperial, liberal, and radical.2014 October, Gustavo Lins Ribeiro, “World anthropologies. Anthropological cosmopolitanisms and cosmopolitics.”, in Annual Review of Anthropology, volume 43
    Antonyms:
    tribalism, nativism
  2. (sometimes) Transnationalism.
  3. (euphemistic, sometimes) Jewishness.
    • rootless cosmopolitanism

cosmopolitanism meaning in Bengali, Arabic and Persian

cosmopolitanism in Bengali

বিশ্বজনীনতাবাদ

cosmopolitanism in Arabic

idea that all humanity belongs to a single community
الْمُوَاطَنَة الْعَالَمِيَّة

cosmopolitanism in Persian

idea that all humanity belongs to a single community
جهانوطنی jahân-vatani

Synonyms of cosmopolitanism

Antonyms

Forms of cosmopolitanism

pluralcosmopolitanisms

Origin of cosmopolitanism

From cosmopolitan + -ism. The sense referring obliquely to Jewishness comes from the long era in which all Jews lived in the Jewish diaspora because Jews had been banished from the ancient Jewish homeland and no new homeland yet existed. In Soviet use it was rooted in fear of transnationalism generally but took on coded or dogwhistle antisemitic qualities that were not explicitly separable from the generality.

Questions about cosmopolitanism

What does cosmopolitanism mean?
Cosmopolitanism means the idea that all of humanity belongs to a single moral community.
What is cosmopolitanism in Bengali?
Cosmopolitanism in Bengali is বিশ্বজনীনতাবাদ. See Cosmopolitanism meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is cosmopolitanism?
Cosmopolitanism is a noun.
How do you pronounce cosmopolitanism?
Cosmopolitanism is pronounced /ˌkɑzməˈpɑlɪtənɪzm̩/.
What is the plural of cosmopolitanism?
The plural of cosmopolitanism is cosmopolitanisms.

Words near cosmopolitanism in the dictionary

  1. cosmopolitanisation
  2. cosmopolitanise
  3. cosmopolitanised
  4. cosmopolitanises
  5. cosmopolitanising
  6. cosmopolitanism
  7. cosmopolitanisms
  8. cosmopolitanist
  9. cosmopolitanization
  10. cosmopolitanizations
  11. cosmopolitanize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cosmopolitanism (page history and authors); cosmopolitanism (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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