occidentosis.
An increase in social inequality that occurs when the widespread adoption of Western technology results in job losses and factory owners gaining wealth.
Meaning & usage
An increase in social inequality that occurs when the widespread adoption of Western technology results in job losses and factory owners gaining wealth.
When a factory rapidly producing cloth opened in the village, many people lost their jobs from the resulting occidentosis.
Where this word comes from
From occident (“west”) + -osis; calque of Iranian Persian غربزدگی (ġarb-zadegi).
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.