Bohemianism
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A Bohemian lifestyle. countable, uncountable
"It was all very well, this Bohemianism of red lamp-shades and cigarettes, but in the cold grey light that filtered through Partridge's grimy windows it did not show to any great advantage."
- 2 Alternative letter-case form of Bohemianism. alt-of, countable, uncountable
"Guido moved to Big Sur in the early 1960s, during its heyday of unspoiled bohemianism (alas, after my mother and I had left him)."
- 3 conduct characteristic of a bohemian wordnet
- 4 A word or phrase characteristic of the Bohemian language. countable, uncountable
"[…] Pannonianisms are in reality Bohemianisms."
Example
More examples"The rough-and-tumble work in Afghanistan, coming on the top of a natural Bohemianism of disposition, has made me rather more lax than befits a medical man. But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs."
Etymology
From Bohemian + -ism.
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