westernism

[ wes-ter-niz-uhm ]

noun

, (often initial capital letter)

1. a word, idiom, or practice characteristic of people of the Occident or of the western U.S.

westernism

/ ˈwɛstəˌnɪzəm /

noun

1. a word, habit, practice, etc, characteristic of western people or of the American West

Word History and Origins

Origin of westernism¹

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40; western + -ism

Example Sentences

Yet just there, at the supreme point of his Westernism, we must remember what he was fighting for: the life of a race-nation and a civilization that was contradictory to the West.

From Project Gutenberg

With his support of the missionaries, the native struggles became a religious war between Christianity and paganism as well as between nativism and westernism.

From Project Gutenberg

Yet some of the cultural Westernism has filtered north.

From Time Magazine Archive

Egyptian objections to the four-hour movie are not so much that Anwar Sadat is played by a black actor, as some reports have suggested, but that accents are often Pakistani rather than Egyptian; some of the garb worn is found in Morocco, not Egypt; Nasser is shown kissing Sadat's wife, an abominated Westernism.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is all in hopeless contrast with her Wasp Middle Westernism.

From Time Magazine Archive