Asiaticism

English Etymology From en Asiatic ism. Noun ~ en dated countable Something peculiar to Asia or Asians. en dated uncountable Manners similar to those ascribed to Asians. en 2009 1918 w:Ernst Bertram w:Robert E. Norton Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology 9780252032950 77 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hAXboOMl5SQC&pg=PA77 he writes in The Will to Power that there is something fundamentally immoderate, dissolute, Asiatic in the Greek character: that the bravery of the Greek consists in the battle with their own Asiaticism Usage notes Asiaticism has often been used in a derogatory fashion, and as with en Asiatic noun it may now be considered offensive. Further reading en offensive terms derogatory terms