| 单词 | highbrowism |
| 释义 | > as lemmasˈhighbrowism ˈhighbrowism n. the condition or fact of being highbrow. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > intellectual superiority > [noun] intellectualityc1465 intellectualness1667 highbrowism1908 1908 Collier's 6 June 13/1 Mr. Percy Mackaye's poetic tragedy, ‘Sappho and Phaon’, was one of the things which was fairly open, it seems to me, to the deprecation of highbrowism. 1937 John o' London's Weekly 1 Jan. 585/1 I am incapable of ‘highbrowism’, I make no pretensions to be a literary critic. 1993 Guardian 1 Sept. i. 3/2 That makes them very useful in a country with no tradition of highbrowism. < as lemmas |
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