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orientality

orientality noun: the quality of being oriental.

Noun

orientality (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being oriental.
    • Whose revolution being regular, it hath no power nor efficacy peculiar from its orientality, but equally disperſeth his beams1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin of orientality

From oriental + -ity.

Questions about orientality

What does orientality mean?
Orientality means the quality of being oriental.
What part of speech is orientality?
Orientality is a noun.

Words near orientality in the dictionary

  1. orientalism
  2. orientalisms
  3. orientalist
  4. orientalistic
  5. orientalists
  6. orientality
  7. orientalization
  8. orientalizations
  9. orientalize
  10. orientalized
  11. orientalizes

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