Gradgrindery

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Impatient technical pedantry that dismisses human factors, especially regarding education. uncountable

    "For others, the process of reducing words to numbers is like sucking the life out of language, a remorseless exercise in Gradgrindery whose limited worldview masquerades as objectivity and universal truth."

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"For others, the process of reducing words to numbers is like sucking the life out of language, a remorseless exercise in Gradgrindery whose limited worldview masquerades as objectivity and universal truth."

Etymology

From Gradgrind + -ery.

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