Owlism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Owlism is a noun meaning Affected or pretentious wisdom; pompous dullness; bombast.
Meaning
Affected or pretentious wisdom; pompous dullness; bombast.
More Meanings
- Owlishness; pompous pseudo-intellectual nature or behavior.
- The identification with and/or worship of owls.
- Night-owlism.
Example Sentences
Rather than be found guilty of Owlism, let me venture on a bit and expand on my broad thesis of information management .
But when questioned as to the How? of this splendid proposal, they either belittle the questioner or resort to some vague owlism about the "womb of time."
The book discusses the habits and rituals of these people-owls and explores the nature of >, which exposes the archaic and occult roots of the 20th century totalitarian systems .
Their Owlisms, Vulturisms, to an incredible extent, will disappear by and by, their Heroisms only remaining, and the helmet be reduced to something like the size of the head, we hope!
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include owlery, morosis, wisedome, wisedom, dullness, mope.
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