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transcultural

transcultural

1 7.5
Connecting people or ideas from more than one culture
  • adjective
  • /trænsˈkʌltʃərəl/
translation icon : transcultural
  • The festival showcased transcultural art, bringing together influences from various cultures around the world.
  • transcultural psychiatry
  • transcultural perspective
  • transcultural nursing

Examples

  • Matsunobo concluded that world music pedagogy should address both culture-specific and transcultural meanings and experiences of music.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Hayden White (1980) describes narrative as a "metacode" transmitting transcultural messages about the nature of a shared reality.

    Academic text (1995)
  • In effect, personal and collective memory, often in conflict at home, become merged in the transcultural performance setting.

    Academic text (2005)
  • Often, similarities can be transcultural, such as class-based similarities.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Hence, it is important that nurse educators cannot ignore transcultural nursing.

    Academic text (2003)
  • As a result, the important discussions about the inherent psychological strains of transcultural immigration never occur.

    Blog text (2)
  • A friend of mine works in transcultural psychiatry and he is interested in the question of why people do and don't take their meds.

  • We must go beyond recognizing the commodification of culture and combine such transcultural notions of emulation with local cultures.

    Academic text (1997)
  • Since 1976, he has practiced what he calls "traditional pluralistic Igbo transcultural psychotherapy and healing rituals."

    Academic text (2006)
  • Kay Milton (1995) describes environmentalism as a "transcultural discourse," a sphere of communication traversing cultural boundaries.

    Academic text (2001)

Synonyms

multicultural
vstranscultural
38 3.8

Having people from many countries and backgrounds living and working together

is about crossing or extending beyond single cultural boundaries
intercultural
vstranscultural
3 4.1

About contact between people from different cultures

is about spanning or extending across multiple cultural groups
cross-cultural
vstranscultural
1 4.3

Involving people from two or more different cultures

refers to spanning or extending beyond single cultural boundaries

How Cross-Cultural

global
2.7
transcultural
1 7.5
multicultural
38 3.8
monocultural
1 7.0

Surface Forms

transcultural positive

Morphology

transcultural = cultural (transparent) = trans + culture + al

The adjective is formed by adding the prefix 'trans-' (across/beyond) to 'cultural', yielding the literal meaning 'across cultures', which is directly interpretable.

Etymology

The word transcultural contains trans- meaning 'across', as in transport, and culture meaning 'ways of life' or 'shared habits'. So transcultural describes people, ideas, or art that move 'across' and connect different cultures.