zapadnichestvo
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
34
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An 19th-century intellectual ideology which saw Russia's development as dependent upon the adoption of Western European technology and liberal government.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "In general, however, this leftist wing of zapadnichestvo became more Russian in character , and offered a more original interpretation of Russia's path of development than the liberal versions."
- "According to the spiritual father of zapadnichestvo in the early nineteenth century, Pyotr Chaadaev, Russia had in no way participated in the development of humankind, and it had merely distorted everything that had been elft over from the progress achieved elsewhere."
Etymology
From Russian за́падничество (západničestvo).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: за́падничество