noun
- Semitic characteristics, especially the ways, ideas, influence, etc., of the Jewish people.
- a word or idiom peculiar to, derived from, or characteristic of a Semitic language, especially of Hebrew.
n.1848, “characteristic attributes of Semitic languages;” 1851, “characteristic attributes of Semitic people,” from Semite + -ism. From 1870 as “Jewish influence in a society.”