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Europeanism

Europeanism

1 7.4
Support for political or cultural unity between European countries
  • noun
  • /ˌjʊərəˈpeɪnɪzəm/
: 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
1 9.8

Support for political, cultural, and economic unity across Europe

focuses on political and economic integration between countries

Compounds

1 9.8

Support for political, cultural, and economic unity across Europe

How Pro-European

Europeanism
1 7.4
European Union
116 3.0

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.