didacticismn.
/dʌɪˈdaktᵻsɪz(ə)m/, /dᵻˈdaktᵻsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /dᵻˈdæktəˌsɪzəm/, /daɪˈdæktəˌsɪzəm/ The practice or quality of being didactic; the fact of having instruction or teaching as a primary or ulterior purpose.
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society > education > teaching > [noun] > instructive quality
teachableness1641
instructiveness1656
didacticism1816
didacticality1839
didacticity1848
1816 Analectic Mag. Dec. 497 Our readers will be able to determine whether the oratory of the rostrum is susceptible of that dignity and didacticism of which he so enthusiastically talks.
a1849 E. A. Poe Longfellow in Wks. (1864) III. 365 Didacticism is the prevalent tone of his song.
1888 Spectator 28 July 1036/1 The hardly veiled didacticism of novels like those of Miss Edgeworth.
1921 Harper's Mag. Apr. 582/2 ‘So’—his voice took on didacticism, a slightly disagreeable authority—‘you will, of course, think carefully before you give counsel’.
2000 P. Doble in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 193/1 Gains from ‘secular’ education contribute to this process, especially Comenius' and Dewey's accent on understanding in order to learn: didacticism is out, discovery is in.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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