Titanism
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Nonconformism; rebellion against prevailing social and artistic conventions, especially when it involves grandiosity or hubris. countable, uncountable
"We will do well not to understand too quickly what is being fought there beneath curse and entreaty, prayer and blasphemy, as our own; not to classify it too nimbly as an ancient version of one of our modern religious titanisms."
Example
More examples"We will do well not to understand too quickly what is being fought there beneath curse and entreaty, prayer and blasphemy, as our own; not to classify it too nimbly as an ancient version of one of our modern religious titanisms."
Etymology
From Titan + -ism.