COSMOPOLITANISM Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

cosmopolitanism

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Definition of cosmopolitanism

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Recent Examples of cosmopolitanism America’s relative openness to immigrants looked like decadence; cosmopolitanism and internationalism were objects of contempt. — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026 Public shows of cosmopolitanism can only go so far, as Livraria Lello itself demonstrates. — Sophia Nguyen, The Atlantic, 18 July 2026 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 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 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 Studying Latin taught me that contemporary anxieties about manliness and cosmopolitanism date back thousands of years. — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 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

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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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These critiques were amplified by Black content creators and the general social media audience, who took issue with the genre’s Eurocentric portrayal of knowledge and intellectualism.

— Sophia Zhang, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 July 2026
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

Definition of intellectualism

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So when her son, Reed, now 15, was diagnosed with dyslexia 10 years ago, Knopf went down a rabbit hole of literacy education.

— Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026
The state discovered that reforms had to be beneficial to all, and so the political mission had to be implementing education and acculturation as a means of solidifying the nascent bourgeoisie.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of education

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Longworth’s deep research, erudition, and spectacularly precise elocution have made the now-indie podcast essential storytelling for cinephiles.

— Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 23 July 2026
The acclaimed author of The Invention of Nature, Andrea Wulf brings erudition and flair to Forster’s peripatetic career as teenaged crewman on Captain Cook’s global voyage.

— Hamilton Cain, Time, 7 July 2026

Definition of erudition

Noun

Rather than chasing an entirely new hero product, the company has taken the design language and consumer learning from The New York, one of its bestselling and most recognisable bags, and developed another style around it.

— Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2026
New baby 3, fifth draft… In between, much hand-wringing, catastrophising, drinking of wine, learning of nursery rhymes.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of learning

Noun

So when her son, Reed, now 15, was diagnosed with dyslexia 10 years ago, Knopf went down a rabbit hole of literacy education.

— Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2026
The head of New York City’s teachers’ union threatened to yank his support from a major literacy initiative in public schools, blaming this year’s dismal reading scores on the Mamdani administration prioritizing paperwork over progress.

— Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of literacy

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