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anecdotalism|ænɪkˈdəʊtəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. anecdotal a. + -ism.]
A propensity for telling anecdotes. Also spec. in Art.
1901E. H. Fowler World & Winstow xiii. 320 ‘Admiral Kingston tells a great many very prosy stories,’ continued Major Trayne. ‘Anecdotalism is his besetting sin.’ 1928Sunday Express 6 May 12/2 The Royal Academy..is full of vitality, experiment, and imaginative creativeness. There is hardly a trace of sickly sentimentalism and sugary anecdotalism. 1961W. H. Salter Zoar iii. 28 Defects such as these..brought on them the stigma of ‘anecdotalism’.
So anecˈdotalist, a person given to or adept in telling anecdotes.
1911Daily News 25 Aug. 7/1 Maupassant as well as Mr. Kipling was included by Mr. Moore among the anecdotalists. 1960Spectator 12 Feb. 228 He is a superb anecdotalist, endowed with vast self-confidence and the gift of imagery ten times the size of life. |