западничество

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Russian

Etymology

за́пад (západ) +‎ -ник (-nik) +‎ -ество (-estvo), since the 1840s.

Pronunciation

Noun

за́падничество • (západničestvo) n anim (genitive за́падничества, nominative plural за́падничества, genitive plural за́падничеств)

  1. (historical) Westernism, a 19th-century intellectual ideology which saw Russia's development as dependent upon the adoption of Western European technology and liberal government.
    Coordinate term: славянофи́льство (slavjanofílʹstvo)

Declension

Declension of за́падничество (inan neut-form hard-stem accent-a) 
singular plural
nominative за́падничество
západničestvo 		за́падничества
západničestva
genitive за́падничества
západničestva 		за́падничеств
západničestv
dative за́падничеству
západničestvu 		за́падничествам
západničestvam
accusative за́падничество
západničestvo 		за́падничества
západničestva
instrumental за́падничеством
západničestvom 		за́падничествами
západničestvami
prepositional за́падничестве
západničestve 		за́падничествах
západničestvax

Descendants

See also

References

  • западничество in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru
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