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noun

Intellectualism n.

Intellectual power; intellectuality.

The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.

Preference for activities involving exercise of the intellect; sometimes, An excessive emphasis on abstract or intellectual matters with deprecation of the value of feelings.

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Etymology of 'Intellectualism'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Intellectualism" Quotes from Famous Books

... progress. But it is precisely about the direction that we disagree. Whether the future excellence lies in more law or less law, in more liberty or less liberty; whether property will be finally concentrated or finally cut up; whether sexual passion will reach its sanest in an almost virgin intellectualism or in a full animal freedom; whether we should love everybody with Tolstoy, or spare nobody with Nietzsche;—these are the things about which we are actually fighting most. It is not merely true that the age which has settled least what is progress is this "progressive" ...

— Heretics • Gilbert K. Chesterton

... called themselves 'Moderns;' the politicians were designated 'Liberals.' Both vindicated the supreme right of freedom in everything: free criticism, free research, free thought, free speech. The reign of pure intellectualism became supreme; every emotion, every sentiment was dissected, measured by the measure of inexorable logic; and rationalism, later doomed to bankruptcy, was in ...

— Dutch Life in Town and Country • P. M. Hough

... human kind, and is wedded to intellectualism and a sense of superiority to others for the rest of his miserable life. He institutes a new system of censorship of his own. It takes the form of sneering at and condemning anything that does not conform to his own ideas. ...

— Nonsenseorship • G. G. Putnam