Dictionary

intellectualism en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Etymology tree English intellectual Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English intellectualism From intellectual + -ism.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The use or development of the intellect.
   • 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. 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
2. (countable, uncountable) The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.
3. (countable, uncountable) The use of mental attributes as a criterion or value.

Forms

Deriveds

pseudointellectualism · nonintellectualism · anti-intellectualism

Relateds

intellectualist

Synonyms

rationalism (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason)

Translations (25)

fi intellektualismi (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason) · tl pagkamakaisipnon (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason) · it intellettualismo (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason) · fr intellectualisme (use or development of intellect) · es intelectualismo (use or development of intellect) · pl intelektualizm (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason) · cs racionalismus (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason) · bn বুদ্ধিজীবিতা (use or development of intellect) · fi järjenkäyttö (use or development of intellect) · ru интеллектуали́зм (use or development of intellect) · pt intelectualismo (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason) · el νοησιοκρατία (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason) · pt intelectualismo (use or development of intellect) · ca intel·lectualisme (use or development of intellect) · cs intelektualismus (use or development of intellect) · ca intel·lectualisme (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason) · ar فكرانية (use or development of intellect) · it intellettualismo (use or development of intellect) · sv intellektualism (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason) · el νοησιαρχία (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason) · es intelectualismo (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason) · el διανοητισμός (use or development of intellect) · tl pagkamakaisipnon (use or development of intellect) · ru интеллектуали́зм (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason) · fr intellectualisme (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason)