Usonianism

English edit

Etymology edit

Usonian +‎ -ism

Noun edit

Usonianism (uncountable)

(rare) A custom, idea, or practice peculiar to the United States.
- 1995, Bruce-Novoa, “Through the Eye of the Condor: The Limitless Horizons of Literary Space”, in María Duke dos Santos, Patricia De la Fuente, editors, Sabine R. Ulibarrí, page 98:
  That Ulibarri sees the Ecuadorean Indian as too burdened by a tradition of dehumanizing servitude is perhaps more revealing of his deep-seated Usonianism than of the Indians' real character.
(rare) A preference for the US and the ideas it represents.
- 2003, José F. Buscaglia-Salgado, Undoing Empire: Race and Nation in the Mulatto Caribbean, page 22:
  Already in the early process of developing a Usonian nationalist ideology, or Usonianism, […]
(rare) The philosophical ideal of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian architecture.
- 1979, American Society for Environmental History, Environmental Review, page 21:
  Broadacres was the ultimate landscape combining the best of the cities and the country, organicism, decentralization and usonianism.
- 2002, April 15, “Frank Lloyd Wright's "Usonianism" Will Be Explored in Talk Sponsored by UB Art History Department”, in NewsCenter, State University of New York at Buffalo:
  "Usonianism," an architectural style that articulated Frank Lloyd Wright's social and economic principles of "usonian democracy," […]
- ca 2008, Colorado Historical Society, Nomination of the Nelson House to the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties:
  Architect Frank Lloyd Wright pioneered Usonianism as the path to affordable modern residential architecture.

Synonyms edit

(custom peculiar to the USA): Americanism