cosmopolitanism
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the fact or condition of belonging to all the world and not just one part, or of being at home all over the world.
My cosmopolitanism is the result of a childhood being towed around the world by a restless father.
Most studies of Victorian literature focus on the cosmopolitanism and global reach of realism.
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freedom from local or national ideas, values, and prejudices.
Countries hosting this event will be able to join in a global celebration of cosmopolitanism and cultural diversity.
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Botany, Zoology. the fact or property of being widely distributed over the globe.
By more minutely tracing the relations of the freshwater fauna to those of the marine fauna, perhaps the cosmopolitanism of freshwater animals can be explained.
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Today, the phrase suggests Mitteleuropa, the borderless, multilingual cosmopolitanism of pre-1914 Europe; the world of yesterday, as the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig called it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
A concerted campaign has cropped up seemingly overnight to turn Mamdani’s victory into an opportunity to attack cosmopolitanism.
From Salon • Jun. 26, 2025
Mr Suraiya spiritedly defended the magazine: "JS spoke to a certain urban educated cultural sensibility that was in a sense, Westernised, but it was shaping a distinctly Indian cosmopolitanism".
From BBC • Dec. 27, 2023
Yet they were also very different: the Malikite legalism of the Almoravids was in contrast to the cosmopolitanism of Ibn Tumart’s ideology.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
There is probability in Professor Brander Matthews's suggestion that in our growing cosmopolitanism national divergencies in content will exist with a growing agreement in form.
From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.
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