Word.ws English Dictionary

westernism

westernism noun: something that is characteristic of the western part of a region.

Noun (1)

westernism (plural westernisms)

  1. Something that is characteristic of the western part of a region.

Noun (2) capitalized: Westernism

Westernism (uncountable)

  1. The ideology and culture of the West.
    Synonyms:
    Occidentalism
  2. (historical) An 19th-century intellectual ideology which saw Russia's development as dependent upon the adoption of Western European technology and liberal government.
    • Slavophilism and Westernism were indeed the two sides of the same set of aspirations and sentiments, one facing an image of the past, and the other that of the future.1992, Liah Greenfield, “The Scythian Rome: Russia”, in Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity, revised edition, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 265
    • In the coming decades, the tumult of revolution and war together with the mistakes, compromises, and ambitions of the country's new leaders would bring Russia's "Asiatic" heritage to the fore and sweep away a still-fragile Westernism.2000, Robert English, “The Origins and Nature of Old Thinking”, in Russia and the Idea of the West: Gorbachev, Intellectuals, and the End of the Cold War, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 25

westernism meaning in Tamil and Urdu

westernism in Tamil

மேலைநாட்டு நாகரிகப்பாங்கு

westernism in Urdu

مغربی اطوار

Synonyms of westernism

Forms of westernism

pluralwesternisms

Origin of westernism

From western + -ism.

From Western + -ism. The Russian ideology is a calque of Russian за́падничество (západničestvo).

Questions about westernism

What does westernism mean?
Westernism means something that is characteristic of the western part of a region.
What is westernism in Tamil?
Westernism in Tamil is மேலைநாட்டு நாகரிகப்பாங்கு. See Westernism meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is westernism?
Westernism is a noun.
What is the plural of westernism?
The plural of westernism is westernisms.

Words near westernism in the dictionary

  1. westerniser
  2. westernisers
  3. westernises
  4. westernish
  5. westernising
  6. westernism
  7. westernisms
  8. westernization
  9. westernizations
  10. westernize
  11. westernized

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: westernism (page history and authors); Westernism (page history and authors); Westernism (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); westernism (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “westernism.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/westernism. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.