Asianism

English

Etymology

Asian +‎ -ism

Noun

Asianism (countable and uncountable, plural Asianisms)

1. (historical, uncountable) An 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.

   Antonym: Atticism

2. A behaviour or utterance that is characteristic of Asian people.
   • 2002, Rebecca E. Karl, Staging the World, page 158:

     […] 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.

   • 2009, Andreas Sedlatschek, Contemporary Indian English: Variation and Change, page 86:

     On that basis, upgradation and delink qualify as quantitative lexical South Asianisms.

Related terms

• pan-Asianism

 

Translations

Greek rhetorical tendency

• Italian: asianesimo m