This chapter presents commonly used terms in the study of postcolonialism. The terms listed begin with the alphabet “W”. Detailed explanation is provided for several terms, including whiteness/white studies, world literature, and worlding. Each entry includes the origin of the term; a detailed explanation of its perceived meaning; and examples of the term's use in literary‐cultural texts. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in the late 18th and early 19th centuries used the term weltliteratur. Anthologies of World Literature appeared in the 20th century and theoretical commentaries on the domain made their appearance in the work of Franco Moretti, David Damrosch, and Christopher Prendergast. Worlding must therefore be understood as an imaginative, cultural, but also very material, experience of the Asian or African space as imperial space, by both the European and the native, but as something which erases its processes of textual and imaginative construction of the Third World.