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nounAryanism (countable and uncountable, plural Aryanisms)
plural Aryanisms
- countableuncountableThe ideological belief in the superiority of a defined Aryan race, particularly as an element of Nazism.
The religious significance of Aryanism consisted, first, in the racial division of mankind which it proposed, and second, in its advocacy of the religio-cultural orientation appropriate to the Aryan nations.
1998, A. Leoussi, Nationalism and Classicism, page 93
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