Titanism

American  

[tahyt-n-iz-uhm] / ˈtaɪt nˌɪz əm /

noun

(sometimes lowercase)

1. revolt against tradition, convention, and established order.

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Titanism British  

/ ˈtaɪtəˌnɪzəm /

noun

1. a spirit of defiance of and rebellion against authority, social convention, etc

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Etymology

Origin of Titanism

First recorded in 1865–70; Titan + -ism

Example Sentences

Of this consciousness, no external power could deprive him, and it is this consciousness that is the governing idea of the fragment, and not the Titanism of the Prometheus of Æschylus.

From The Youth of Goethe by Brown, Peter Hume

Both are Titanic figures exactly in the pagan sense, but the form of Faustus' Titanism is the revolt against theology.

From Among Famous Books by Kelman, John

The protest of Prometheus, echoed by Browning's protest of Ixion, appeals to the conscience of the world as right; and, kindling a noble Titanism, puts the divine oppressor in the wrong.

From Among Famous Books by Kelman, John

Here also there has been an apparently reasonable Titanism.

From Among Famous Books by Kelman, John

There is the Titanism of the Celt, his passionate, turbulent, indomitable reaction against the despotism of fact; and of whom does it remind us so much as of Byron?

From Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Johnson, William Savage