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单词 manhattanism
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Manhattanismn.

Brit. /manˈhatənɪz(ə)m/, /manˈhatn̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /mænˈhætnˌɪzəm/, /mənˈhætnˌɪzəm/
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Manhattan , -ism suffix.
Etymology: < Manhattan (see Manhattan n.2) + -ism suffix.
A culture or ideology associated with modern-day life in a large city (spec. New York); the architecture, etc., associated with such a culture.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > a civilization or culture > [noun] > other types of civilizations or cultures
economy1535
patriarchy1868
by-world1872
Western world1894
overworld1895
open society1911
pao-chia1931
closed society1935
plural society1939
technopolis1946
shame culture1947
19841951
Hollerith1957
metaculture1959
underground1959
permissive society1960
caring society1966
technocomplex1968
microsociety1970
overground1971
Manhattanism1978
1978 R. Koolhaas Delirious New York 6 An interpretation that intends to establish Manhattan as the product of an unformulated theory, Manhattanism.
1978 R. Koolhaas Delirious New York 7 Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendours and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once losing faith in it as the basis for a desirable modern culture.
1979 Time 8 Jan. 59/2 Apparently, to ‘Manhattanism’—that fantasy-laden, Promethean language of shaped towers that produced the great monuments of the '20s and '30s: Rockefeller Center, Empire State, the Chrysler Building.
1983 E. Hardwick Bartleby in Manhattan v. 223 Lodgings then, and later the ‘divided space’ of the apartment house, both expressing Manhattanism as a life lived in transition.
1991 N.Y. Times ii. 36/1Manhattanism’, a hedonistic fantasy style of hyperdensity.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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