западничество

Russian

Etymology

за́пад (západ) + -ник (-nik) + -ество (-estvo), since the 1840s.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈzapədʲnʲɪt͡ɕɪstvə]

Noun

за́падничество • (západničestvo) n anim (genitive за́падничества, nominative plural за́падничества, genitive plural за́падничеств)

  1. (historical) Westernism, a 19th-century intellectual ideology which saw Russia's development as dependent upon the adoption of Western European technology and liberal government.
    Coordinate term: славянофи́льство (slavjanofílʹstvo)

Declension

Descendants

  • Belarusian: захо́дніцтва (zaxódnictva) (calque)
  • English: zapadnichestvo (rare)
  • Ukrainian: за́хідництво (záxidnyctvo) (calque)

See also

References

  • западничество in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru
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