coloniality

[ kuh-loh-nee-al-i-tee ]

noun
  1. the set of attitudes, values, ways of knowing, and power structures upheld as normative by western colonizing societies and serving to rationalize and perpetuate western dominance: The end of colonial administrations in the modern world was not the end of coloniality.

  2. Animal Behavior. the state or condition of associating in colonies.

Origin of coloniality

1
First recorded in 1860–65; colonial + -ity

Words Nearby coloniality

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