cosmopolitanism
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- noun
- /ˌkɒzməˈpɒlɪtənɪzəm/
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cosmopolitismo
- Traveling extensively, he developed a deep appreciation for cosmopolitanism and the value of cultural exchange.
As luxury goods, tulips fit well into the Dutch culture of the time, of both new wealth and cosmopolitanism.
- As luxury goods, tulips fit well into the Dutch culture of the time, of both new wealth and cosmopolitanism.
Examples
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Many city dwellers embrace cosmopolitanism by learning about diverse cultures and traditions.
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Despite her cosmopolitanism, Elaine had never before lived abroad, and for her, England, amazingly from Hasting's perspective, was a place of looseness.
Fiction book (1994) -
His easy cosmopolitanism thrilled her.
Fiction book (1995) -
People everywhere, even in places with claims to cosmopolitanism, live in the here and now, and are interested in what pertains directly to their lives.
Academic text (2010) -
A new Middle East modeled on the European Union would foster genuine cosmopolitanism throughout the region and offer new political, economic, and cultural opportunities to all the peoples in the area.
Academic text (1995) -
Other languages had never interested him, but Shakespeare's tongue, a symbol of cosmopolitanism, politeness, and respectability, attracted him.
Fiction book (2000) -
Indeed, in expressing the city's increasing cosmopolitanism, the works may have metaphorically overcome the social heterogeneity and contested politics of daily life.
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The current era of globalization has not even approached the cosmopolitanism and openness to migration that characterized the pre-1914 phase.
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Livable, politically progressive, culturally hip university towns have grown into little centers of cosmopolitanism, their bright cafés resounding with jazz and swing.
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Hardly an assimilationist, Bourne argued that what the country craved was a dose of ethnic heterogeneity—the very kind of European cosmopolitanism brought by the new immigrants.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
An open attitude to people and ideas from many countries
Antonyms
How Cosmopolitan
Surface Forms
Morphology
cosmopolitanism = cosmopolitan (transparent) = cosmopolitan + ism
Formed by '-ism' from the adjective to denote a quality or state (the state of being cosmopolitan), which is a standard and predictable formation.
Etymology
Cosmopolitanism comes from the Greek parts cosmo- ('world') and polites ('citizen'), a phrase that paints the image of a 'citizen of the world'. That's why someone with cosmopolitanism feels at ease in many countries and cultures.