Aryanism

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Aryan +‎ -ism

Noun[edit]

Aryanism (countable and uncountable, plural Aryanisms)

  1. The ideological belief in the superiority of a defined Aryan race, particularly as an element of Nazism.
    • 1998, A. Leoussi, Nationalism and Classicism, page 93:
      The religious significance of Aryanism consisted, first, in the racial division of mankind which it proposed, and second, in its advocacy of the religio-cultural orientation appropriate to the Aryan nations.