Intellectualism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Intellectualism is a noun meaning The use or development of the intellect.
Meaning
The use or development of the intellect.
More Meanings
- (philosophy) The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.
- (sociology) The use of mental attributes as a criterion or value.
Example Sentences
I don't think much of you yet — I wish I could — though you do go talking and lecturing up and down the country to crowded audiences, and are busy with all sorts of philanthropic intellectualism, and circulating libraries and museums, and Heaven only knows what besides, and try to make us think, through newspaper reports, that you are, even as we, of the working classes.
Word Forms
- intellectualisms
Synonyms for intellectualism
Depending on context, synonyms include rationalism.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ideolatry, wisdom, literati, logic, ideogeny, technesis.
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