Associations to the word «Orientalism»

Wiktionary

ORIENTALISM, noun. In the figurative arts, the tendency to represent eastern subjects, to assume stylistical characteristics original of the East.

Dictionary definition

ORIENTALISM, noun. The scholarly knowledge of Asian cultures and languages and people.
ORIENTALISM, noun. The quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Asian civilizations; "orientalisms can be found in Mozart's operas".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats