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n. - The state of being worldly in one's interests.

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  • The trend of cosmopolitanism in the present age is said to be caused by easier exchange of goods through commercialism.
  • You may call it cosmopolitanism; but it is simply Imperialism in one form or another.
  • DARNTON: Well, cosmopolitan -- you know, I used the word cosmopolitanism the first time I ever was in Eastern Europe.
  • If it had been, boundary disputes might have been expected with the eighteenth century, whose claim to cosmopolitanism is better established.
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