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 A Racial Study of the Fijians by Gabel, Norman E.

His early and rabid westernism was greatly tempered on contact with the west.

From Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 by Anonymous

Borne up on her breezy westernism was a fragrant reserve, a fine reticence that disengaged a tantalising promise.

From Sally of Missouri by Young, Rose E. (Rose Emmet)

We have seen how in recent times the Confucian literati resisted the onset of westernism.

From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Morris, Kenneth