westernism
noun
westernism is a noun meaning “Something that is characteristic of the western part of a region” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-E-S-T-E-R-N-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 68 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of westernism is westernisms.
What does westernism mean?
noun
- 1
Something that is characteristic of the western part of a region.
noun
- 1
The ideology and culture of the West.
- 2
An 19th-century intellectual ideology which saw Russia's development as dependent upon the adoption of Western European technology and liberal government.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of westernism
- westernisms plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is westernism?
Westernism 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).
Westernism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense 19th century ideology:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | occidentaliste |
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.
Where does westernism come from?
From western + -ism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).