Skip to main content

interculturalism

noun

interculturalism is a noun meaning “The philosophy of exchanges between cultural groups within a society” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-N-T-E-R-C-U-L-T-U-R-A-L-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 68 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of interculturalism is interculturalisms.

What does interculturalism mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The philosophy of exchanges between cultural groups within a society

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of interculturalism

  • interculturalisms plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is interculturalism?

Interculturalism appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Interculturalism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense philosophy:

LanguageWords
Frenchinterculturalisme
GermanInterkulturalismus

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.