culturism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A right-wing political movement that opposes multiculturalism and promotes Western culture.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The Confucian ethic has been discredited, but no new ethic has taken its place. Women have been emancipated. The ancient culturism of the Middle Kingdom has been transmuted into nationalism, pride of culture providing the stuff for pride of race and nation."
- "Preserve these (if you have the narrator's permission to do so) for research into the interview situation, the narrator's personality, or the verbal culturisms of the narrator and her group."
- "Just as important is the recognition of those forms of theory, pedagogy and curriculum—vestiges of the 'humanist Victorian missionary'—that continue to visit the sins of culturism on children in classrooms."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *kʷélh₁eti Proto-Italic *kʷelō Latin colō Proto-Indo-European *-tew-? Proto-Indo-European *-r-eh₂? Latin -tūra Latin cultūrader. Middle French cultureder. English culture Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English culturism From culture + -ism.