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What is the noun for Orientals?

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Oriental
  1. A precious stone, especially an orient pearl. [from 14th c.]
  2. A member or descendant of the peoples and cultures of the Orient. [from 15th c.]
  3. A lily cultivar of a widely varied group, with strong scent.
orientalism
  1. In the figurative arts, the tendency to represent eastern subjects, to assume stylistical characteristics original of the East.
  2. An Eastern word, expression, or custom.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Under the guiding logic of these complex dualisms, western primatology is simian orientalism.”
      “But the baptismal water proved unequal to the task of washing away Benjamin Disraeli's innate orientalism of deportment.”
      “The nineteenth-century preoccupation with Orientalism provided a strong design influence well into the twentieth century.”
orientalia
  1. Things from the Orient, especially decorative objects from eastern Asia.
  2. Examples:
    1. “He paid meticulous attention to the warmer sonorities without letting the tinkly orientalia obscure the predominantly smooth melodic contours.”
      “Wise, and, most famously, the bogus orientalia of Sir Edmund Backhouse could be highly profitable.”
      “In 1926 the Russian State Publishers released his first published works, Orientalia, op.”
orientalist
  1. A person (especially a scholar) interested in the Orient.
  2. Examples:
    1. “This discourse of the colonised is contemporary with that of the European orientalist, but from the opposite point of view.”
      “Today, culture is used as a tool of new forms of oppression of women, whether in its orientalist or occidentalist guise.”
      “He continued:I could say that is one of the silliest, crypto-racist, indeed orientalist things I have encountered, except it is not.”
oriental
Orient
orientality
  1. The quality of being oriental.
orientalisms
  1. plural of orientalism
orientalists
  1. plural of orientalist
Orientals
  1. plural of Oriental
orientals
  1. plural of oriental
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “From experience, many Orientals consider fermented soybeans more palatable and digestible than unfermented ones.”
      “Wisdom teeth problems are more common among European whites compared to Orientals and blacks.”
      “Arabs, Syrians, Persians and other Orientals exhibited great interest in this subject even before this period in history.”
Orients
  1. plural of Orient
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