Asianism

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noun

An Ancient Greek rhetorical tendency that arose in the third century BC, favouring emotion, bombast and wordplay over austere formality, and distinguished by the use of a prose rhythm.

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Scrabble 10

Meanings

nounAsianism (countable and uncountable, plural Asianisms)

plural Asianisms

  1. historicaluncountableAn Ancient Greek rhetorical tendency that arose in the third century BC, favouring emotion, bombast and wordplay over austere formality, and distinguished by the use of a prose rhythm.

    Antonyms: Atticism

  2. countableuncountableA behaviour or utterance that is characteristic of Asian people.

    On that basis, upgradation and delink qualify as quantitative lexical South Asianisms.

    2009, Andreas Sedlatschek, Contemporary Indian English: Variation and Change, page 86
    1 more example

    […] this historicization that allowed and even forced Chinese intellectuals to develop conceptual linkages to neighboring peoples and that permitted the production of new types of globalisms, Asianisms, and nationalisms.

    2002, Rebecca E. Karl, Staging the World, page 158

Synonyms & antonyms

nounAn Ancient Greek rhetorical tendency that arose in the third century BC, favouring emotion, bombast and wordplay over austere formality, and distinguished by the use of a prose rhythm.

Opposite

Origin

Translations

Italian asianesimo
  • asianesimoGreek rhetorical tendency
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APA

Asianism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Asianism

MLA

“Asianism.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Asianism. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

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