coloniality

[ kuh-loh-nee-al-i-tee ]

noun

1. the set of attitudes, values, ways of knowing, and power structures upheld as normative by western colonizing societies and serving to rationalize and perpetuate western dominance:

   The end of colonial administrations in the modern world was not the end of coloniality.

2. Animal Behavior. the state or condition of associating in colonies.

Word History and Origins

Origin of coloniality¹

First recorded in 1860–65; colonial + -ity