Meaning of Asianism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An Ancient Greek rhetorical tendency that arose in the third century BC, favouring emotion, bombast and wordplay over austere formality, and distinguished by the use of a prose rhythm.
   historical, uncountable
2. A behaviour or utterance that is characteristic of Asian people.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] this historicization that allowed and even forced Chinese intellectuals to develop⟳ conceptual linkages to neighboring peoples and that permitted the production of new types of globalisms, Asianisms, and nationalisms.”

“On that basis, upgradation and delink qualify⟳ as quantitative lexical South Asianisms.”

CEFR level