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Westernism.

The ideology and culture of the West.

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Meaning & usage

noun
  1. The ideology and culture of the West.

    uncountable
  2. An 19th-century intellectual ideology which saw Russia's development as dependent upon the adoption of Western European technology and liberal government.

    historical · uncountable
Where this word comes from

From Western + -ism. The Russian ideology is a calque of Russian за́падничество (západničestvo).

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