orientalism

1. 1.

   the scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people

   SynonymsOriental Studies

   Broaderhumanistic discipline
2. 2.

   the quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Asian civilizations

   “orientalisms can be found in Mozart's operas”

   Broaderquality

Other forms of orientalism

plural

orientalisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about orientalism

What does orientalism mean?

orientalism means "the scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in orientalism?

orientalism has 4 syllables: o-rien-ta-lism. The stress falls on "rien".

What is another word for orientalism?

Close synonyms include Oriental Studies. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is orientalism a common word?

orientalism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.