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oc·ci·den·tal

or Oc·ci·den·tal (ŏk′sĭ-dĕn′tl)

adj.

Of or relating to the countries of the Occident or their peoples or cultures; western.

A native or inhabitant of an Occidental country; a westerner.

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occidental

(ˌɒksɪˈdɛntəl)

adj

a literary or formal word for western Compare oriental

Occidental

(ˌɒksɪˈdɛntəl)

adj

of or relating to the Occident

(Physical Geography) an inhabitant, esp a native, of the Occident

ˌOcciˈdentalism n

ˌOcciˈdentalist n, adj

ˌOcciˈdentally adv

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oc•ci•den•tal

(ˌɒk sɪˈdɛn tl)

adj.

1. (usu. cap.) of or pertaining to the Occident or its inhabitants.

2. western.

3. (usu. cap.) an inhabitant of the Occident.

[1350–1400; Middle English < Latin]

oc`ci•den′tal•ly, adv.

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Noun	1.	Occidental - a native inhabitant of the Occident denizen, dweller, habitant, inhabitant, indweller - a person who inhabits a particular place
	2.	Occidental - an artificial language artificial language - a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose
Adj.	1.	occidental - denoting or characteristic of countries of Europe and the western hemisphere; "occidental civilization"; "Hesperian culture" Hesperian western - relating to or characteristic of the western parts of the world or the West as opposed to the eastern or oriental parts; "the Western world"; "Western thought"; "Western thought"

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occidental

occidentale

occidental

[ˌɒksɪˈdentl] ADJ → occidental

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occidental

[ˌɒksɪˈdɛnt^əl] adj (= western) → occidental(e)

occidental

adj (liter) → abendländisch

n (rare) → Abendländer(in) m(f)

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occidental

[ˌɒksɪˈdɛnt/əl] adj (frm) → occidentale

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If Christianity has done everything to orientalize the Occident, Judaism has always played an essential part in occidentalizing it again: which in a certain sense means making of Europe's mission and history a continuation of the Greek.

"One Jew more or less--what does it matter?" Nietzsche on the Jewish question

Within this emergent context of multicultural temporal coevalness, "transnational indifference" inaugurates a new mode of transnational social relationality rendering forms of othering defunct: cultures encounter each other not by means of an orientalizing or occidentalizing gaze, (4) through which the constitution of the self other binary implicates both in a complex and a fraught entanglement, but now by a set of mediations that open up the social field to alternative social imaginations.

Temporality, civic engagement, and alterity: Indo-kei in contemporary Japan

However, a fuller "awareness" of the circumstances surrounding The Egyptian's creation might also "open up the interpretative spaces beyond the assumptions of a normative academic 'common sense.'" (44) The recognition that The Egyptian alludes to its own contemporary crises prompts us to consider that its target was not some distant "Other," but very much "Itself." And in its own "occidentalizing" way, the film was "queerly" "at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant," inviting its audience " to examine the theoretical and central forces ...