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Europeanism

Europeanism

7.4
Support for political or cultural unity between European countries
  • noun
  • /ˌjʊərəˈpeɪnɪzəm/
translation icon : europeísmo
  • The book discusses Europeanism as a means of promoting peace and cooperation across Europe.

Examples

  • It is not Dutch culture that is threatened by Americanism; it is European culture, Europeanism.

    Academic text (1990)
  • The far right's own nationalistic Europeanism, which is against further integration, differentiates it from the moderate parties.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Contrary to the positions of "Left Europeanism," we must insist that a "Eurozone with a human face" is impossible with the current balance of forces.

    Blog text (21)
  • You can perfectly well understand it without any anti Europeanism, anti whitism, anti Christianism.

  • The critique of American culture served the defense of a Europeanism, even if the latter, ironically, was no more than a virtual image, a mirror construction caused by the very vastness of the challenge that "Americanism" represented.

    Academic text (1994)
  • This latter dimensional metaphor, in particular, when deliberately taken out of its context of a defense of Europeanism and the attendant critique of Americanism, does help frame the rules of transformation underlying American culture.

    Academic text (1994)
  • This immersion, this loyal devotion to the probing of meaning and sense, to a heritage of signs and significance, are, to ter Braak, the ingredients of Europeanism.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Many activists advocate for Europeanism to strengthen ties between EU nations for economic stability.

  • Advocates of Europeanism believe that cultural integration among member countries can lead to greater unity.

Synonyms

pan-Europeanism
vsEuropeanism
  • Formal
9.8

Support for political, cultural, and economic unity across Europe

focuses on political and economic integration between countries

Compounds

9.8

Support for political, cultural, and economic unity across Europe

How Pro-European

Europeanism
7.4

Surface Forms

Europeanism singular
Europeanisms plural

Morphology

Europeanism = European (transparent) = Europe + an + ism

The ideological/political sense ('belief in European unity') is a standard and productive meaning of '-ism' attached to an adjective base.

Etymology

Europeanism comes from Europe and the ending -ism, which means 'a belief or system', so you can think of it as the idea of Europe as a whole; that's why it means support for political, economic, or cultural unity among European countries.