dogmatism
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- antidogmatism noun
- overdogmatism noun
Etymology
Origin of dogmatism
First recorded in 1595–1605; from Late Latin dogmatismus, equivalent to Latin dogmat(icus) dogmatic + -ismus -ism; replacing dogmatisme, from French
Example Sentences
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This statement in part reflects, perhaps, her intolerance of intellectual dogmatism.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 26, 2024
Joseph de Maistre was "a fierce absolutist, a furious theocrat, an intransigent legitimist ... always and everywhere the champion of the hardest, narrowest and most inflexible dogmatism."
From Salon • Jul. 1, 2023
Doubt protects us from dogmatism, which can easily morph into fanaticism and what William James calls a “premature closing of our accounts with reality.”
From Scientific American • Aug. 14, 2021
Rather than capitulate to dogmatism, she decided to withdraw from society.
From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2020
It was then announced with all the dogmatism of authority that silver was unfit to be used as money.
From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by Jones, John P. (John Percival)
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