Asianism

English Asiatic style Etymology From en Asian ism. Noun ~ en historical uncountable An Ancient Greek rhetorical tendency that arose in the third century BC, favouring emotion, bombast and wordplay over austere formality, and distinguished by the use of a prose rhythm. en Atticism A behaviour or utterance that is characteristic of Asian people. en 2002 Rebecca E. Karl Staging the World 158 this historicization that allowed and even forced Chinese intellectuals to develop conceptual linkages to neighboring peoples and that permitted the production of new types of globalisms, Asianisms, and nationalisms. en 2009 Andreas Sedlatschek Contemporary Indian English: Variation and Change 86 On that basis, upgradation and delink qualify as quantitative lexical South Asianisms. Related terms en pan-Asianism Translations Greek rhetorical tendency Italian: it asianesimo m