[f. prec. + -ISM.] a. Tendency to adopt what is European; e.g., European ideas, manner of living, systems of government, etc. b. Anything peculiar to or characteristic of Europe or Europeans. c. The modes of living, thought, etc., current in Europe.
1828. Blackw. Mag., XXIV. 67/2. Orientals drawn by an European are always likely to have an unnatural tinge of Europeanism in their modes of thought and action.
1864. Sala, in Daily Tel., 13 Oct., 5/3. To eat alone and à la carte is known as living on ‘the European system,’ and you are mulcted for your Europeanism accordingly.
1865. Cornh. Mag., Oct., 512. The Maories are suffering now from a surfeit of Europeanism.
1887. Pall Mall Gaz., 23 July, 3/1. For a European to write of modern Hinduism is much as though a native of India were to write of modern Europeanism or modern Christianity.
