Usually means: Western interpretations of Eastern cultures.
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  1. Orientalism, Orientalism, orientalism: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. orientalism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Orientalism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Orientalism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Orientalism, orientalism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Orientalism, orientalism: Wordnik
  7. orientalism: Wiktionary
  8. Orientalism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Orientalism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Orientalism: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Orientalism, orientalism: Dictionary.com
  12. Orientalism (book), Orientalism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Orientalism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. orientalism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. orientalism: Rhymezone
  16. Orientalism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. orientalism: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. orientalism: Free Dictionary
  19. orientalism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Orientalism: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. Orientalism: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. orientalism: Encyclopedia

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  1. orientalism: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See orientalisms as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Orientalism)

noun:  (art, architecture, literature) The tendency to represent eastern subjects, to assume stylistical characteristics original of the East.
noun:  An Eastern word, expression, or custom.
noun:  (postcolonialism) A patronizing Western attitude towards Middle Eastern, Asian, and North African societies.
noun:  Alternative form of orientalism [(art, architecture, literature) The tendency to represent eastern subjects, to assume stylistical characteristics original of the East.]

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