cosmopolitanism
The quality of being cosmopolitanThe quality of being cosmopolitan.: The idea that all of humanity belongs to a single moral community.
Meaning
3 sensesThe quality of being cosmopolitan.
(countable, uncountable)The idea that all of humanity belongs to a single moral community.
Kosmopolitismus, Weltbürgertum
космополити́змkosmopolitízm
космополіти́змkosmopolitýzm
(countable, sometimes, uncountable)Transnationalism.
Transnationalism.
(countable, euphemistic, sometimes, uncountable)Jewishness.
rootless cosmopolitanism
Translations
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Origin
From cosmopolitan + -ism. The sense referring obliquely to Jewishness comes from the longFrom 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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Forms
plural: cosmopolitanisms| Singular | cosmopolitanism |
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