westernism

American  

[wes-ter-niz-uhm] / ˈwɛs tərˌnɪz əm /

noun

(often initial capital letter)

1. a word, idiom, or practice characteristic of people of the Occident or of the western U.S.

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westernism British  

/ ˈwɛstəˌnɪzəm /

noun

1. a word, habit, practice, etc, characteristic of western people or of the American West

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Etymology

Origin of westernism

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40; western + -ism

Example Sentences

With his support of the missionaries, the native struggles became a religious war between Christianity and paganism as well as between nativism and westernism.

From Project Gutenberg

Yet some of the cultural Westernism has filtered north.

From Time Magazine Archive

Egyptian objections to the four-hour movie are not so much that Anwar Sadat is played by a black actor, as some reports have suggested, but that accents are often Pakistani rather than Egyptian; some of the garb worn is found in Morocco, not Egypt; Nasser is shown kissing Sadat's wife, an abominated Westernism.

From Time Magazine Archive

This was one branch of Westernism.

From Project Gutenberg

This is nearly fifty years ago; and Westernism was not quite extinct.

From Project Gutenberg