Europeization

English

Etymology

    From Europeize +‎ -ation.

    Cognate with Catalan europeïtzació, French européisation, Italian europeizzazione, Portuguese europeização, Spanish europeización.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /jʊəɹəpiaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/
    • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

    Noun

    Europeization (plural Europeizations)

    1. Synonym of Europeanization
      • 1855, Adam Gurowski, A Year of the War, page 50:
        What the future may bring no one knows; but the past sufficiently shows that things cannot exist which are of themselves wholly impossible. And among them is the moral and political Europeization of Turkey.
      • 1926, Current History‎[1], page 430:
        The writer rather expects a gradual “Europeization” of American life.
      • 2002, Identity and Difference in the Global Era‎[2], page 179:
        The problem of this kind of analysis is that this reading is too easily framed into the dominant paradigm of the superficiality of modernizing Europeization of Brazil.
      • 2008, Coloniality at Large: Latin America and the Postcolonial Debate, page 282:
        This aspiration of cultural Europeization was part of a structure of power [...]
      • 2010, Michal Kořan, Czech Foreign Policy in 2007-2009, page 319:
        Europeization is a gradual process that marks the whole body of the Czech foreign policy.