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occidentotropisms

occidentotropisms is the plural of occidentotropism.

Meaning of occidentotropism

Noun

occidentotropism (plural occidentotropisms)

  1. An expression (sometimes a figure of speech) with an inclination toward western civilization (i.e. the occident).
    • A kind of occidentotropism ("Go West Young Man!") informs the films, conveying a thrusting purposiveness...: Red Sundown (1956), Union Pacific (1939), The Last Outpost (1935, 1951), Heaven's Gate (1959).2002, Ella Shohat, Robert Stam, “The Imperial Imaginary”, in The Anthropology of Media: A Reader, Blackwell Publishers

Questions about occidentotropisms

What is occidentotropisms the plural of?
Occidentotropisms is the plural of occidentotropism.

Words near occidentotropisms in the dictionary

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

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