Criticism of "elitism" is often a veiled attack on intellectualism.
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Intellectualism
Synonyms for "intellectualism" (29 found)
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Closest matches (6)
Strong matches (9)
Related words (14)
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3 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
2 entriesTranslations
23 translations across 12 languages.
Catalan
2 entries- intel·lectualisme noun (use or development of intellect)
- intel·lectualisme noun (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason)
Czech
2 entries- intelektualismus noun (use or development of intellect)
- racionalismus noun (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason)
Finnish
2 entries- intellektualismi noun (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason)
- järjenkäyttö noun (use or development of intellect)
French
2 entries- intellectualisme noun (use or development of intellect)
- intellectualisme noun (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason)
Greek
3 entries- διανοητισμός noun (use or development of intellect)
- νοησιαρχία noun (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason)
- νοησιοκρατία noun (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason)
Italian
2 entries- intellettualismo noun (use or development of intellect)
- intellettualismo noun (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason)
Polish
1 entries- intelektualizm noun (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason)
Portuguese
2 entries- intelectualismo noun (use or development of intellect)
- intelectualismo noun (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason)
Russian
2 entries- интеллектуали́зм noun (use or development of intellect)
- интеллектуали́зм noun (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason)
Spanish
2 entries- intelectualismo noun (use or development of intellect)
- intelectualismo noun (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason)
Swedish
1 entries- intellektualism noun (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason)
Tagalog
2 entries- pagkamakaisipnon noun (use or development of intellect)
- pagkamakaisipnon noun (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason)
Sample sentences
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But even the most spiritual life has its temptations. The extravagant fever of industrialism and intellectualism had so subtly poisoned the plant-men that when at last they rebelled against it they swung too far, falling into the snare of a vegetal life as one-sided as the old animal life had been. Little by little they gave less and less energy and time to "animal" pursuits, until at last their nights as well as their days were spent wholly as trees, and the active, exploring, manipulating, animal intelligence died in them forever.
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I don't think much of you yet — I wish I could — though you do go talking and lecturing up and down the country to crowded audiences, and are busy with all sorts of philanthropic intellectualism, and circulating libraries and museums, and Heaven only knows what besides, and try to make us think, through newspaper reports, that you are, even as we, of the working classes.
Source: wiktionary
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