Asiaticism

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noun

Something peculiar to Asia or Asians.

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Meanings

nounAsiaticism (countable and uncountable, plural Asiaticisms)

plural Asiaticisms

  1. countabledatedSomething peculiar to Asia or Asians.
  2. dateduncountableManners similar to those ascribed to Asians.

    […] he writes in The Will to Power that there is something fundamentally immoderate, dissolute, Asiatic in the Greek character: that the bravery of the Greek consists in the battle with their own Asiaticism […]

    2009 [1918], Ernst Bertram, translated by Robert E. Norton, Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology, →ISBN, page 77

Origin

From Asiatic + -ism.

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APA

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

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

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Asiaticism,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Asiaticism.

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