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didacticism

American  
[dahy-dakt-i-siz-uhm] / daɪˈdækt ɪˌsɪz əm /

noun

  1. a tendency to be didactic; didactic character, tone, or style.


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Foreman and the Wooster Group share an aversion to linearity, psychological realism and didacticism of any kind.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 21, 2024

He’s too rigorous a thinker to fall back on facile antagonisms between art and commerce, and too generous an entertainer to saddle a zigzagging shaggy-dog story with didacticism.

From New York Times Jul. 20, 2022

So even if Novic and Fell tilt toward didacticism, it’s for good reason.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 29, 2022

“People are resistant to didacticism, and disaster is a spectacle — the genre is so established it puts a barrier between you and the consequences,” she said.

From Washington Post Sep. 24, 2021

She poured them forth—little rushing streams of didacticism.

From Forgotten Tales of Long Ago by Bedford, F. D.

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