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Etymology

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Iranian +‎ -ism

Noun

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Iranianism (plural Iranianisms)

  1. Cultures and traditions associated with Iranians and Iran.
    • 1989, Andrzej Walicki, The Slavophile Controversy: History of a Conservative Utopia in Nineteenth-century Russian Thought:
      According to his conception of the struggle between Iranianism and Kushitism, the antithesis of the principles represented by Orthodox Russia would have to be sought in Africa or Asia rather than in Western Europe []