didacticism
Americannoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
There’s nothing in “Make Believe” to indicate that when Mr. Barnett laments didacticism, he’s referring to a specific type of book or writer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Foreman and the Wooster Group share an aversion to linearity, psychological realism and didacticism of any kind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2024
The didacticism and repeated stories are a trickier matter.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
The film refuses didacticism, offering instead the proverb: If you know, you know.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2022
She poured them forth—little rushing streams of didacticism.
From Forgotten Tales of Long Ago by F. D. Bedford
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
