expatriatism
expatriatism noun: the condition of being an expatriate, especially a deliberate one.
Noun
expatriatism (countable and uncountable, plural expatriatisms)
- The condition of being an expatriate, especially a deliberate one
- The traveler ventures into the world of exile and expatriatism, two terms that Edward Said defines in his essay "Reflections on Exile." Whereas exile connotes the negative, expatriatism carries more positive associations.2006, Sara Steinert Borella, The Travel Narratives of Ella Maillart: (en)gendering the Quest, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 20
- More important, her colonial expatriatism placed her in an extraordinary lineage of similarly positioned women writers – Olive Schreiner, Katherine Mansfield, and Jean Rhys – who had helped generate both “the modern” as a literary concept …2009, Australian Research Professor Simon During, Simon During, Exit Capitalism: Literary Culture, Theory and Post-Secular Modernity, Routledge, →ISBN, page 78
Forms of expatriatism
| plural | expatriatisms |
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Origin of expatriatism
From expatriate + -ism.
Questions about expatriatism
- What does expatriatism mean?
- Expatriatism means the condition of being an expatriate, especially a deliberate one.
- What part of speech is expatriatism?
- Expatriatism is a noun.
- What is the plural of expatriatism?
- The plural of expatriatism is expatriatisms.
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