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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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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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2022

The portrait of life that emerges organically from this understated, observant approach makes “Eyimofe” the rare social realist drama that conveys critique without didacticism and empathy without pity.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2021

These gnomic writings, running into a developed didacticism, are illustrated by the song of Walther von der Vogelweide on the restraint of eye, ear, and tongue.

From Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature by McLaughlin, Edward Tompkins