cosmopolitanism

noun

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Recent Examples of cosmopolitanism For all her cosmopolitanism, Schjerfbeck didn’t do much to dispel this. — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026 Studying Latin taught me that contemporary anxieties about manliness and cosmopolitanism date back thousands of years. — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025 One of Singapore’s most attractive qualities is its cosmopolitanism, its openness to the world; Raffles embodies that spirit. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Mar. 2026 Buddhist culture and ideas, which spread across Asia through the trade routes and communication networks of an early urban cosmopolitanism, have long had a deep affinity with technoculture. — Big Think, 18 Nov. 2025 The main obstacle will likely be the politics of immigration, where the tension between cosmopolitanism and national solidarity surfaces most clearly. — Jeff D. Colgan, Foreign Affairs, 17 Apr. 2017 Religiosity and nationalism have fused, displacing cosmopolitanism. — Adam Louis-Klein, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026 For Iranians – particularly those in the diaspora – Googoosh symbolizes an era of cosmopolitanism in late-Pahlavi Iran, the period from the mid-1950s until 1979 when Iran’s popular music, cinema, television and fashion embraced modernity and questioned social norms. — Richard Nedjat-Haiem, The Conversation, 15 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cosmopolitanism
  1. urbanity
  2. sophistication
  3. intellectualism
  4. education
  5. erudition
  6. scholarship
  7. learning
  8. literacy
Noun
  • His music is, in the best sense, grown-up, proof that a gifted songwriter can tackle the headiest, heaviest topics, compressing a novel’s worth of ideas, intelligence, irony, urbanity, humor and ambivalence into four minutes.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Catherine’s house doesn’t evoke Hyde Park brownstones, or even urbanity, so much as some generic Midwest vista, which is not right for this play.
    — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 17 Apr. 2026
Definition of urbanity
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  • The backstory Hotel Swexan is the first hotel for the Harwood Hospitality group and is an obvious collaboration between the sophistication of a European hotel and the classic charms of Texas.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 July 2026
  • The sophistication of the bomb used indicates that more than one perpetrator was involved, prosecutors said, adding that two men were arrested in Monaco before being released due to lack of evidence.
    — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 3 July 2026
Definition of sophistication
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  • Fans of trivia like to say that caring so deeply about these facts at a time of disinformation and anti-intellectualism is an act of defiance—that picking up trivia is a way to keep knowledge from being disappeared.
    — Drew Goins, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
  • The mix of academic-level intellectualism and gross-out outrageousness fits the mood Riley wants to conjure.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2026
Definition of intellectualism
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  • The Halftime Show will support the FIFA Global Citizen Fund, set to raise $100 million to expand access to education and football for youth worldwide.
    — Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 9 July 2026
  • Shaun Harper, a USC education professor, warned that restoring the tests would hand the White House a fresh weapon to portray UC as illegally practicing affirmative action.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
Definition of education
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  • In sixteenth-century Italian pedante comedies, the Latin tutors—always the butt of the joke—are known more for the gaps in their knowledge than for their erudition.
    — Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 25 Apr. 2026
  • In her coda, Woo writes with great compassion and erudition about what can’t be found in archives, particularly the specifics of how Ellen Craft died.
    — Nicholas Boggs, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2026
Definition of erudition
Noun
  • College athletics have also opened educational opportunities for generations of young Americans through scholarships and NIL (Name Image and Likeness) deals that have changed the trajectory of entire families.
    — Jon Root OutKick, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026
  • Funds have also been raised to send underprivileged children to different day camps, and a scholarship has been established at her theater group, Lindsey says.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
Definition of scholarship
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  • The saints’ books, rich vestments and formal poses were visible signs of holiness, symbolizing their learning, discipline and eloquence.
    — Denva Gallant, The Conversation, 8 July 2026
  • The future of education may be less about reinventing learning and more about scaling what already works.
    — Lisa Schade, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Definition of learning
Noun
  • Orton-Gillingham methods and other structured literacy approaches have transformed literacy instruction for students with dyslexia.
    — Lisa Schade, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
  • Reading rates might fluctuate, but optimists argue that the long arc of history points toward universal literacy.
    — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
Definition of literacy

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