Expatriatism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Expatriatism is a noun meaning The condition of being an expatriate, especially a deliberate one.
Meaning
The condition of being an expatriate, especially a deliberate one.
Example Sentences
The traveler ventures into the world of exile and expatriatism, two terms that Edward Said defines in his essay "Reflections on Exile." Whereas exile connotes the negative, expatriatism carries more positive associations.
More important, her colonial expatriatism placed her in an extraordinary lineage of similarly positioned women writers – Olive Schreiner, Katherine Mansfield, and Jean Rhys – who had helped generate both “the modern” as a literary concept …
Word Forms
- expatriatisms
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include expatriate, expatriot, self-exile, alienism, expulsionist, emigrationist.
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