Aryanism

noun

Aryanism

noun

US /ˈɛːɹijən.ɪzəm/

Etymology From Aryan + -ism.

1

The ideological belief in the superiority of a defined Aryan race, particularly as an element of Nazism.

  • 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.1998, A. Leoussi, Nationalism and Classicism, page 93:

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