"Africanism" meaning in English

See Africanism in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: Africanisms [plural]
Etymology: African + -ism Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|African|ism}} African + -ism Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} Africanism (countable and uncountable, plural Africanisms)
  1. Eurocentric representation of Africans or people of African ancestry. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (Eurocentric representation of Africans): africanisme [masculine] (Catalan), africanisme [masculine] (French), afrykanizm [masculine] (Polish), africanismo [masculine] (Portuguese), africanismo [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-Africanism-en-noun-gd2lGXFg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ism Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 59 41 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 62 38 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ism: 65 35 Disambiguation of 'Eurocentric representation of Africans': 88 12
  2. A characteristically African cultural feature, such as a belief, custom or linguistic feature. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-Africanism-en-noun-99sAKMLp
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: Pan-Africanism

Inflected forms

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