Killjoyism
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The behaviour of a killjoy. uncountable
"This question was the topic of a very unsatisfactory Irish television debate in 1964, which paid too much attention to the Italianate statues and holy pictures of the nineteenth-century devotional revolution and the supposed infusion of Victorian values to explain the notorious killjoyism of Irish Catholicism."
Example
More examples"This question was the topic of a very unsatisfactory Irish television debate in 1964, which paid too much attention to the Italianate statues and holy pictures of the nineteenth-century devotional revolution and the supposed infusion of Victorian values to explain the notorious killjoyism of Irish Catholicism."
Etymology
From killjoy + -ism.
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