Professorialism
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The manners or habits of a professor. uncountable
"Another class there is who may receive profit from our humble efforts, and find their home-hours blessed by our monthly professorialism —those who, in the morning of family life, find it their duty to be "stayers at home," and whom even the fascinations of institute life and progress cannot tempt from a wife's side, from child-training, or from the sadder sick couch which demands the silent, loving watchfulness of the untasked hours."
- 2 The state of being a professor; professorship. uncountable
"I don't want to scale the ladder of professorialism towards another goal that's as difficult to attain as the goal at the end of the ladder I've been on for the last fifteen years."
- 3 The quality of being professor-like; didactic, academic, erudite, stuffy, and/or pedantic. uncountable
"The frigid professorialism of Kant's philosophy robbed it of all dynamic principle ."
Example
More examples"Another class there is who may receive profit from our humble efforts, and find their home-hours blessed by our monthly professorialism —those who, in the morning of family life, find it their duty to be "stayers at home," and whom even the fascinations of institute life and progress cannot tempt from a wife's side, from child-training, or from the sadder sick couch which demands the silent, loving watchfulness of the untasked hours."
Etymology
From professorial + -ism.
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