occidentosis
An increase in social inequality that occurs when the widespread adoption of Western…An increase in social inequality that occurs when the widespread adoption of Western technology results in job losses and factory owners gaining wealth.
Meaning
1 senses(dated, rare, uncountable)An increase in social inequality that occurs when the widespread adoption of Western technology results in job losses and factory owners gaining wealth.
When a factory rapidly producing cloth opened in the village, many people lost their jobs from the resulting occidentosis.
Origin
From occident (“west”) + -osis; calque of Iranian Persian غربزدگی (ġarb-zadegi).From occident (“west”) + -osis; calque of Iranian Persian غربزدگی (ġarb-zadegi).
Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable