intellectualism
noun
devotion to intellectual pursuits.
intellectualistic
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a word derived from
intellectualism.
Example Sentences
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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
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
Maimonides's ethics as well as his interpretation of the Pentateuchal laws is intellectualistic, as the foregoing account shows.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik
The whole active material of natural fact is tried out, and only the barest intellectualistic formalism remains.
From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by William James
Having done what I could in my earlier lectures to break the edge of the intellectualistic reductiones ad absurdum, I must leave the issue in your hands.
From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by William James
