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cosmopolitanism

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29
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15
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/ˌkɑzməˈpɑlɪtənɪzm̩/

Definition of cosmopolitanism

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The quality of being cosmopolitan.
    “The philosophy of cosmopolitanism underlies theories of global citizenship. Cosmopolitanism is the ability to balance a local and global identity. A cosmopolitan individual engages meaningfully with different cultures and feels at home in the world.”
    “To present the world anthropologies project (WA), this article explores the existence of three kinds of anthropological cosmopolitanisms and cosmopolitics: imperial, liberal, and radical.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The quality of being cosmopolitan.
    “The philosophy of cosmopolitanism underlies theories of global citizenship. Cosmopolitanism is the ability to balance a local and global identity. A cosmopolitan individual engages meaningfully with different cultures and feels at home in the world.”
    “To present the world anthropologies project (WA), this article explores the existence of three kinds of anthropological cosmopolitanisms and cosmopolitics: imperial, liberal, and radical.”
  2. (countable, sometimes, uncountable)The quality of being cosmopolitan.
  3. (countable, euphemistic, sometimes, uncountable)The quality of being cosmopolitan.
    “rootless cosmopolitanism”

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Etymology

From cosmopolitan + -ism. The sense referring obliquely to Jewishness comes from the long era in which all Jews lived in the Jewish diaspora because Jews had been banished from…

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From cosmopolitan + -ism. The sense referring obliquely to Jewishness comes from the long era in which all Jews lived in the Jewish diaspora because Jews had been banished from the ancient Jewish homeland and no new homeland yet existed. In Soviet use it was rooted in fear of transnationalism generally but took on coded or dogwhistle antisemitic qualities that were not explicitly separable from the generality.

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