philistinism
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Definition of philistinism
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(countable, uncountable)A materialistic attitude accompanied by ignorance of artistic or cultural matters.
“It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.”
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Etymology
From philistine + -ism.
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