Europeization

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/jʊəɹəpiaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/

noun

Synonym of Europeanization

Scrabble 24

Meanings

nounEuropeization (plural Europeizations)

plural Europeizations

  1. Synonym of Europeanization

    The writer rather expects a gradual “Europeization” of American life.

    1926, Current History, page 430
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    What the future may bring no one knows; but the past sufficiently shows that things cannot exist which are of themselves wholly impossible. And among them is the moral and political Europeization of Turkey.

    1855, Adam Gurowski, A Year of the War, page 50

    The problem of this kind of analysis is that this reading is too easily framed into the dominant paradigm of the superficiality of modernizing Europeization of Brazil.

    2002, Identity and Difference in the Global Era, page 179

    This aspiration of cultural Europeization was part of a structure of power [...]

    2008, Coloniality at Large: Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate, page 282

    Europeization is a gradual process that marks the whole body of the Czech foreign policy.

    2010, Michal Kořan, Czech Foreign Policy in 2007-2009, page 319

    Synonyms: Europeanization

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSynonym of Europeanization

Origin

  1. Ancient GreekΕὐρώπᾱ (Eurṓpā)
  2. Ancient GreekΕὐρωπαῖος (Eurōpaîos)
  3. LatinEuropae(us)
  4. EnglishEuropeize
  5. EnglishEuropeization

From Europeize + -ation. Cognate with Catalan europeïtzació, French européisation, Italian europeizzazione, Portuguese europeização, Spanish europeización.

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