Shemitism

Noun

Semitism (countable and uncountable, plural Semitisms)

1. (countable, rhetoric) A word or phrase (construction or idiom) typical of or influenced by a Semitic language such as Arabic, Aramaic or Hebrew.
   • The main reason for this neglect is the fact that it is largely a translated text, a fact which is alleged to account for its strange idiom tinged with Semitic traits, largely in syntax and lexicography. For sure, one can easily identify countless Semitisms.2004, Takamitsu Muraoka, “Septuagint Lexicography”, in Biblical Greek Language and Lexicography, edited by Bernard A. Taylor, John A. L. Lee, Peter R. Burton, and Richard E. Whitaker, →ISBN, page 85
2. (rare, uncountable) Semitic character; Semiticness.
   • If gay corporation executives can learn to talk to drag queens and separatist dykes across the common denominator of being queer, then perhaps Arabs and Jews can learn to communicate across their common Semitism.1979 April 21, Dennis Melba'son, “NGTF, the March and the Hinterlands”, in Gay Community News, page 5
3. (rare, strict-sense, uncountable) Judaism; Jewishness (especially when seen as the thing to which anti-Semitism is opposed).
   • […] a racist coloration through the inclusion of another remark of Albert Gessmann: when the more radical nationalists fell silent a merger of all Aryans against the common danger of Semitism will be the next consequence.1990, Richard S. Geehr, Karl Lueger: Mayor of Fin de Siècle Vienna, →ISBN, page 308