# imperialism
## English
### Etymology

From imperial +‎ -ism.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA: /ɪmˈpɪə.ɹi.ə.lɪ.z(ə)m/
* (General American) IPA: /ɪmˈpɪ.ɹi.əˌlɪ.zəm/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Hyphenation: im‧per‧i‧al‧i‧sm

### Noun

imperialism (countable and uncountable, plural imperialisms)
* The policy of forcefully extending a nation's authority by territorial gain or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations.
** 2008 June 1, A. Dirk Moses, “Preface”, in Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page x:Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.
* (figurative, derogatory) Any undue extension of political, intellectual, or other forms of authority.
** 1990, Robert H. Bork, The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law, →ISBN, page 101:The moral imperialism of the Supreme Court did not end with Chief Justice Warren’s resignation nor with the departures of the Justices who made up his distinctive majority.
** 1998, Michio Morishima, “Foreword: Joseph A. Schumpeter (1883–1950) and Yasuma Takata (1883–1972)”, in Joseph Schumpeter, Yasuma Takata, Power or Pure Economics?, →ISBN, page xxxvi:By contrast, economists of the Chicago School approach [sociology] from a standpoint of the imperialism of economics, in the sense that they advance the study of substructure into the areas of the study of superstructure, by researching it as economics.
** 2015, Russell T. McCutcheon, A Modest Proposal on Method: Essaying the Study of Religion, →ISBN, page 33:[…] her analysis of the discourse on private belief […] “reduced” and thus “explained away” my intuitions as being something other than what I experience them to be for myself. It was therefore the imperialism of her method that I claimed to be particularly offensive.

#### Derived terms

* anti-imperialism
* counter-imperialism
* cultural imperialism
* eco-imperialism
* neoimperialism, neo-imperialism
* social imperialism
* subimperialism, sub-imperialism

#### Related terms

* imperialist
* imperialistic

#### Translations
### Further reading

* imperialism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “imperialism”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* imperialism in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
* "imperialism" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 159.
* “imperialism”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French impérialisme. By surface analysis, imperial +‎ -ism.

### Noun

imperialism n (uncountable)
* imperialism

#### Related terms

* imperiu

## Swedish
### Noun

imperialism c
* imperialism

#### Derived terms

* kulturimperialism
* neoimperialism

#### Related terms

* imperium
* imperialist
* imperialistisk

### References

* imperialism in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* imperialism in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* imperialism in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)