foreignism
English
Etymology
Noun
foreignism (countable and uncountable, plural foreignisms)
- (uncountable) A tendency to favor what is foreign.
- (countable) A trait, custom, phrase or characteristic typical of a foreign country or language.
- Synonym: alienism
Hyponyms
foreignismsedit
- Akkadianism / Akkadism
- Americanism
- Amharism
- Anglicism
- Arabism
- Aramaism
- Armenism
- Australianism
- Batavism
- Belorussianism
- Bengalism
- Briticism
- Bulgarism
- Catalanism
- Church Slavicism / Church Slavonicism / Slavonicism
- Croatism
- Czechism / Bohemism / Bohemianism
- Gallicism / Frenchism
- Germanism / Teutonism
- Grecism / Hellenism
- Hebraism
- Hispanism / Hispanicism / Castilianism
- Hungarianism / Magyarism
- Indianism
- Iranianism
- Irishism
- Italianism / Italicism
- Japanism
- Kazakhism
- Latinism
- Macedonianism
- Mandaism
- Moravianism
- New Zealandism
- Persianism
- Polonism
- Portuguesism
- Russianism
- Scotticism
- Serbism
- Serbo-Croatism
- Sinicism
- Slavism
- Slovenism / Pannonianism
- Sumerianism / Sumerism
- Syriacism
- Turkism
- Ukrainism / Ukrainianism
- Uzbekism
- Yiddishism
Derived terms
Translations
a trait, custom, phrase or characteristic typical of a foreign country or language
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