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Definition of Orientalism

1. Noun. The scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people.

2. Noun. The quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Asian civilizations. "Orientalisms can be found in Mozart's operas"

Definition of Orientalism

1. n. Any system, doctrine, custom, expression, etc., peculiar to Oriental people.

Definition of Orientalism

1. Noun. In the figurative arts, the tendency to represent eastern subjects, to assume stylistical characteristics original of the East. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Orientalism

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Orientalism

oriental bush cherry oriental cherry oriental cholangio-hepatitis oriental cockroach oriental food oriental person oriental plane oriental poppy oriental roach oriental spruce

oriental sweetgum oriental turtle dove oriental turtle doves orientalia orientalise orientalism (current term) orientalisms orientalist orientalists orientality

orientalize orientalized orientalizes orientalizing orientally orientals orientanol orientate orientated orientates

Literary usage of Orientalism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Christianity: From the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of by Henry Hart Milman, James Murdock (1875)
"... CHAPTER V. Christianity and orientalism. CHRISTIANITY had not only to ... its conflict with orientalism is chiefly visible in the influence of the ..."

2. Asian Review by East India Association (London, England) (1901)
"QUARTERLY REPORT ON SEMITIC STUDIES AND orientalism. BY PROFESSOR DR. EDWARD MONTET. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. IT is just a year since our last report appeared ..."

3. History of Christianity from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of by Henry Hart Milman (1866)
"CHAPTER Y. Christianity and orientalism. CHRISTIANITY had not only to contend ... nor clearly estimated: its conflict with orientalism is chiefly visible in ..."

4. The History of Christianity, from the Birth of Christ to the Abolition of by Henry Hart Milman, James Murdock (1875)
"CHAPTER V. Christianity and orientalism. CHRISTIANITY had not only to contend witli the Judaism Oriental of its native region, and the Paganism of the ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"orientalism International Congress of Orientalists. Ninth meeting: London, 1892; Algiers, 1905. Philosophy International Positivist Congress. Naples, 1908. ..."

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