asiaticism — ozdic

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noun

1

Something peculiar to Asia or Asians.

2

Manners similar to those ascribed to Asians.

[…] he writes in The Will to Power that there is something fundamentally immoderate, dissolute, Asiatic in the Greek character: that the bravery of the Greek consists in the battle with their own Asiaticism […]

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[…] he writes in The Will to Power that there is something fundamentally immoderate, dissolute, Asiatic in the Greek character: that the bravery of the Greek consists in the battle with their own Asia

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