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occidentosis

occidentosis noun: an increase in social inequality that occurs when the widespread adoption of Western technology results in job losses and factory owners gaining wealth.

Noun

occidentosis (uncountable)

  1. (dated, rare) An increase in social inequality that occurs when the widespread adoption of Western technology results in job losses and factory owners gaining wealth.
    • When a factory rapidly producing cloth opened in the village, many people lost their jobs from the resulting occidentosis.
    • To follow the West—the Western states and the oil companies—is the supreme manifestation of occidentosis in our time.1984, Jalal Al-i Ahmad, Hamid Algar, Occidentosis: A Plague from the West, Indiana University Press, page 63

Origin of occidentosis

From occident (“west”) + -osis; calque of Iranian Persian غربزدگی (ġarb-zadegi).

Questions about occidentosis

What does occidentosis mean?
Occidentosis means an increase in social inequality that occurs when the widespread adoption of Western technology results in job losses and factory owners gaining wealth.
What part of speech is occidentosis?
Occidentosis is a noun.

Words near occidentosis in the dictionary

  1. occidentalized
  2. occidentalizes
  3. occidentalizing
  4. occidentally
  5. occidentals
  6. occidentosis
  7. occidentotropism
  8. occidentotropisms
  9. occidents
  10. occidiofungin
  11. occiduous

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