imperialism

imperial +‎ -ism

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): [ɪmˈpɪə.ɹi.ə.lɪ.zm̩]
• (General American) IPA^(key): [ɪmˈpɪɹ.i.ə.lɪ.zm̩]

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imperialism (countable and uncountable, plural imperialisms)

1. The policy of forcefully extending a nation's authority by territorial gain or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations.
   • 2008 June 1, A. Dirk Moses, “Preface”, in Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page x:

     Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.

2. (figurative, derogatory) Any undue extension of political, intellectual, or other forms of authority.
   • 1990, Robert H. Bork, The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law, →ISBN, page 101:

     The moral imperialism of the Supreme Court did not end with Chief Justice Warren’s resignation nor with the departures of the Justices who made up his distinctive majority.

   • 1998, Michio Morishima, “Foreword: Joseph A. Schumpeter (1883–1950) and Yasuma Takata (1883–1972)”, in Joseph Schumpeter, Yasuma Takata, Power or Pure Economics?, →ISBN, page xxxvi:

     By contrast, economists of the Chicago School approach [sociology] from a standpoint of the imperialism of economics, in the sense that they advance the study of substructure into the areas of the study of superstructure, by researching it as economics.

   • 2015, Russell T. McCutcheon, A Modest Proposal on Method: Essaying the Study of Religion, →ISBN, page 33:

     […] her analysis of the discourse on private belief […] “reduced” and thus “explained away” my intuitions as being something other than what I experience them to be for myself. It was therefore the imperialism of her method that I claimed to be particularly offensive.

• anti-imperialism
• imperialist
• imperialistic

• “imperialism”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• imperialism in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "imperialism" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 159.
• “imperialism”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Borrowed from French impérialisme. By surface analysis, imperial +‎ -ism.

imperialism n (uncountable)

1. imperialism

• imperiu

imperialism c

1. imperialism

• kulturimperialism
• neoimperialism

• imperium
• imperialist
• imperialistisk

• imperialism in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• imperialism in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• imperialism in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)