imperialism

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English

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Etymology

From imperial +‎ -ism.

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Noun

imperialism (countable and uncountable, plural imperialisms)

  1. The policy of forcefully extending a nation's authority by territorial gain or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations.
    • 2008 June 1, A. Dirk Moses, “Preface”, in Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page x:
      Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.
  2. (figurative, derogatory) Any undue extension of political, intellectual, or other forms of authority.
    • 1990, Robert H. Bork, The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law, →ISBN, page 101:
      The moral imperialism of the Supreme Court did not end with Chief Justice Warren’s resignation nor with the departures of the Justices who made up his distinctive majority.
    • 1998, Michio Morishima, “Foreword: Joseph A. Schumpeter (1883–1950) and Yasuma Takata (1883–1972)”, in Joseph Schumpeter, Yasuma Takata, Power or Pure Economics?, →ISBN, page xxxvi:
      By contrast, economists of the Chicago School approach [sociology] from a standpoint of the imperialism of economics, in the sense that they advance the study of substructure into the areas of the study of superstructure, by researching it as economics.
    • 2015, Russell T. McCutcheon, A Modest Proposal on Method: Essaying the Study of Religion, →ISBN, page 33:
      [] her analysis of the discourse on private belief [] “reduced” and thus “explained away” my intuitions as being something other than what I experience them to be for myself. It was therefore the imperialism of her method that I claimed to be particularly offensive.

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  • imperialism”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  • imperialism in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
  • "imperialism" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 159.
  • imperialism”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French impérialisme. By surface analysis, imperial +‎ -ism.

Noun

imperialism n (uncountable)

  1. imperialism

Declension

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imperialism c

  1. imperialism

Declension

Declension of imperialism 
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Indefinite Definite
Nominative imperialism imperialismen
Genitive imperialisms imperialismens

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