Home › Words › W › westernismwesternismwesternism means something that is characteristic of the western part of a region.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, westernism ranks #16,730 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom western + -ism.nounSomething that is characteristic of the western part of a region.The ideology and culture of the West.An 19th-century intellectual ideology which saw Russia's development as dependent upon the adoption of Western European technology and liberal government.e.g.“Slavophilism and Westernism were indeed the two sides of the same set of aspirations and sentiments, one facing an image of the past, and the other that of the future.” — 1992, Liah Greenfield, “The Scythian Rome: Russia”, in Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity, revised edition, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 265:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.antiwesternism 76% match — An ideological, cultural, and political trend opposing Western cultural and political influences. vs westernism →occidentalism 75% match — The habits and attitudes of westerners. vs westernism →westernish 70% match — Characteristic of occidental countries or culture. vs westernism →westernness 70% match — The quality of being Western. vs westernism →westcentrism 69% match — The practice of viewing the world from a Western perspective, with an implied belief, either consciously or subconsciously, in the preeminence of Western culture. vs westernism →westernized 69% match — Having been made culturally Western. vs westernism →antiwestern 65% match — Opposing Western cultural and political influences. vs westernism →wokeism 63% match — The purported ideology of wokeness. vs westernism →