Professorialism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Professorialism is a noun meaning The manners or habits of a professor.
Meaning
The manners or habits of a professor.
More Meanings
- The state of being a professor; professorship.
- The quality of being professor-like; didactic, academic, erudite, stuffy, and/or pedantic.
Example Sentences
The frigid professorialism of Kant's philosophy robbed it of all dynamic principle .
I determined to observe Bloomsbury—not the totem worshippers of professorialism, but the large-hearted visitors of colour.
I don't want to scale the ladder of professorialism towards another goal that's as difficult to attain as the goal at the end of the ladder I've been on for the last fifteen years.
In the interests of academic egalitarianism we decided to approach scholars nearer the beginnings than the ends of their careers: we wanted to encourage free exchange rather than de-haut en-bas professorialism.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include academicism, pedagogism, academese, pedantism, pulpitism, perfesser.
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