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What does Occident mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Occident? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. the West (Western world)
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Here Orient is not any more sensual and phantasmagoric, it is rigid and almost cold. Here Occident is no more sparkling and victorious, it is sad and decadent.
An average illiterate, uncultured Indian is by birth more resistant against diseases then a well informed citizens of the Occident.
The emperorship was conceived as universal and gave its incumbent control over the entire Occident.
We do shine on occasions, we people of the Occident, but the Burmese shine all the time.
Reductively, one could say this is the distinction built into the binary of the Occident and the Orient.
In the 19th century the Orient and the Occident were discursively established just like mirror effect.

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