foreignist

English

Etymology

From foreign +‎ -ist.

Adjective

foreignist (comparative more foreignist, superlative most foreignist)

1. Favoring the foreign.

   foreignist translation theory

   • 2000, Peter France, The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation, OUP, →ISBN, page 20:

     Identifying E4 as the ideal ‘foreignizing’ translation and E11 as the ideal ‘domesticating’ translation, for example, the foreignist theorist can then proceed to build an entire bivalent model for the limits of translation […] .

Noun

foreignist (plural foreignists)

1. One who favors what is foreign.

Related terms

• foreignism
• foreignize