Schwärmerei
Americannoun
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But he was as much opposed to the pretentiousness of dogmatic metaphysics as to the pusillanimity of scepticism and the Schwärmerei of mysticism.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English by Various
Did she, remembering my well-known susceptibility, fear that I might fall in love with him and compromise myself by some silly Schwärmerei?
From The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill
As to Berlin, I think she has enjoyed it, but she talks very scornfully of German Schwärmerei and German women, and she tells the oddest stories of her professors.
From Robert Elsmere by Mrs. Humphry Ward
The undisciplined mystic, in his reliance on the inner light, may fall into various kinds of Schwärmerei and superstition.
From Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge
But these moments of high enthusiasm are rare; and Kant commends sobriety and warns against high-minded Schwärmerei, or over-strained Mysticism.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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