[f. prec. + -ISM.]
1. Cosmopolitan character; adherence to cosmopolitan principles.
1828. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), I. 217. A certain attenuated cosmopolitanism had taken place of the old home feeling.
1878. Dowden, Stud. Lit., 374. In her vain striving after cosmopolitanism … he [Quinet] recognised the secret of Italy’s decrepitude.
2. Nat. Hist. World-wide distribution.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, Introd. 113. A nearer approach made to cosmopolitanism than is usual amongst Insects.
