🔤 Orientalizing ✨

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URDU

مشرقی رنگ دینا، مشرقی انداز اختیار کرنا، مشرقی تصور پیش کرنا، مشرقی بنا دینا
🅰️ Roman Urdu:
mashriqi rang dena, mashriqi andaz ikhtiyar karna, mashriqi tasavvur pesh karna, mashriqi bana dena
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ENGLISH

📚verb
orientalizing
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PRONUNCIATION

Standard: /ˌɔːriənˈtaɪzɪŋ/
Phonetic: /or ee un ty zing/
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DEFINITION

representing something through imagined Eastern characteristics, adopting or imposing an exoticized Eastern style or perspective
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

The novel was criticized for orientalizing its characters through exaggerated exotic descriptions. Several paintings were orientalizing Asian cultures for Western commercial audiences. The film avoids orientalizing foreign societies and presents their ordinary complexity. Scholars examined how orientalizing language shaped colonial descriptions of Eastern peoples. The exhibition challenged earlier orientalizing assumptions about culture religion and identity.
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SYNONYMS

exoticizing othering stereotyping westernizing
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ANTONYMS

contextualizing humanizing localizing representing accurately
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