westernism

[wes-ter-niz-uhm]

noun (often initial capital letter)

a word, idiom, or practice characteristic of people of the Occident or of the western U.S.

Origin:
1830–40, Americanism; western + -ism

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westernism (ˈwɛstəˌnɪzəm)

—n
	a word, habit, practice, etc, characteristic of western people or of the American West

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