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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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In time, his didacticism would “lapse into bullying.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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 film refuses didacticism, offering instead the proverb: If you know, you know.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 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

The playwright colors the didacticism of Hogarth's prints with music and farce, yet underscores it by adding Virtue and Vice and the melodrama of Rakewell's suicide and Sarah's probable death.

From The Harlot's Progress, The Rake's Progress (MS., CA. 1778-1780) by Anonymous

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