bluestockingismn.
/ˈbluːˌstɒkɪŋɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈbluˌstɑkɪŋɪz(ə)m/ Now chiefly historical.
The condition, characteristics, or behaviour of a bluestocking (bluestocking n. 1); intellectualism, or the affectation of this, in a woman. Cf. blueism n.derogatory in 19th and early 20th cent. use.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [noun]
scholarism1588
pedantism1592
pedantry1612
scholasticism1797
bluestockingism1812
donnishness1835
donnism1859
pragmaticism1865
usherism1869
pragmatism1895
mandarinism1976
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > intellectual superiority > [noun] > intellectual matters > devotion to
intellectualism1800
bluestockingism1812
blue1824
cerebralism1881
eggheadism1956
egg-headedness1959
eggheadery1962
1812 A. A. Opie Temper II. 5 ‘Oh ! then surely, sir,’ interrupted Emma smiling, ‘there are strong symptoms of blue stockingism about me.’
1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 8 99 Blue-stockingism was in its cerulean altitude.
1839 T. De Quincey Lake Reminisc. in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 253/2 The utter want of pretension, and of all that looks like Blue-stockingism in the style of her habitual conversation.
1919 Nation 29 Nov. 683/1 As a story-teller she [sc. George Eliot] succeeded in freeing her mind..of the dull pedantries..of philosophy and theology; then..she relapsed into blue-stockingism.
1998 E. A. Fay Feminist Introd. Romanticism iv. 153 Hannah More..supported Bluestockingism in her early works as an impassioned rather than intellectual movement.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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