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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. F.

orientalisme

Any system, doctrine, custom, expression, etc., peculiar to Oriental people.

Knowledge or use of Oriental languages, history, literature, etc.

London Quart. Rev.

Noun.

An eastern mode of speech; an idiom of the eastern languages.

orientalism ‎(countable and uncountable, plural orientalisms)

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

the tendency to represent eastern subjects