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Philistinism

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Noun
  1. 1
    A materialistic attitude accompanied by ignorance of artistic or cultural matters. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters wordnet

Etymology

From philistine + -ism.

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