Meanings
plural Asianisms
- 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 861 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.
Origin
Translations
Italian asianesimo
- asianesimoGreek rhetorical tendency
Cite this entry
Asianism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Asianism
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