单词 | philistinism |
释义 | philistinismn. The quality or condition of being a philistine; spec. the opinions or values of a cultural philistine; indifference or hostility to education, art, etc.; ignorance, unenlightenment. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > [noun] > philistinism Gothicism1710 Gothism1715 philistinism1793 vandalism1798 Babbitry1920 Babbittism1925 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > cultural ignorance > [noun] lewdness1362 inculture1653 uncultivatedness1764 incultivation1787 philistinism1793 uncultivation1796 unculture1812 muselessness1877 unliterariness1903 lowbrowism1910 1793 Philistines 29 (title) Rise & Progress of Philistinism. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. v. 51/2 One ‘Philistine’; who even now, to the general weariness, was dominantly pouring forth Philistinism (Philistriositäten). 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics II. xiii. i. 298 The Romanticists were..the sworn foes..of that low-minded, prosaic narrowness which Germany calls Philistinism. 1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. v. 157 Philistinism!—we have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing. 1899 Q. Rev. Apr. 438 ‘Philistinism’, after all, stands for two great habits, decency and order. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage l. 257 Cronshaw was astute enough to know that the young man disapproved of him, and he attacked his philistinism. 1955 S. Spender Making of Poem i. 18 Functionalism is the philistinism of people who talk about a work of art as a ‘well-done job’ like any other piece of plumbing. 2000 Guardian 7 Sept. ii. 5/4 The dome was promptly exposed for what it actually was: a towering monument to British philistinism and gittishness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1793 |
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