Europeanism

[yoor-uh-pee-uh-niz-uhm, yur-]

noun

1. European characteristics, ideas, methods, sympathies, etc.

2. a European trait or practice.

3. belief in or advocacy of the unification of Europe.

Other Word Forms

• anti-Europeanism noun
• pro-Europeanism noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of Europeanism¹

First recorded in 1820–30; European + -ism

Example Sentences

“Vengeance Is Mine” weaves this web of mothers and daughters and God, of puritans and quiet Eastern Europeanism and “ethnics,” spun by Roemer, a German Jew who, as a boy, escaped the Holocaust on a Kindertransport train.

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As with the patchwork faux Europeanism of “The Grand Budapest Hotel” or, more controversially, the miniaturized Japanophilia of his last feature, “Isle of Dogs,” Anderson practically specializes in attractive, magpie-spirited fakery.

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“We are facing a crisis that is different from previous crises,” he told the Guardian – partly, he said, because of the unpredictable progression of the virus, partly because “Europeanism” has been weakened by other crises of the past decade.

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Labour’s tepid Europeanism made way in 1979 for a leader who certainly had a greater interest in Europe.

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“The politics of Brexit are more about a desire for increased sovereignty than a preference for Atlanticism over Europeanism,” said Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director-general of the Royal United Services Institute.

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