intellectualism
noun
devotion to intellectual pursuits.
intellectualistic
-
a word derived from
intellectualism.
Example Sentences
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In the corridor of intellectualistic protest where the New Republic and the Nation have long stalked, Common Sense now also strolls.
From Time Magazine Archive
This he cultivated with a talent incomparable in modern history, and in a way which certainly contradicts Trotsky's intellectualistic verdict that Stalin was a mere mediocrity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just as little does the term reasonable as used in law permit a purely intellectualistic view of the process or an a priori standard.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
The partisans of the intellectualistic theory would, of course, deny that they ever meant truth with this meaning.
From The Principles of Aesthetics by Dewitt H. Parker
Those who have wished to react against such emasculated erudition have often thrown themselves into the opposite extreme, that is, into a dogmatic, abstract, intellectualistic, or moralistic form of criticism.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
