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middlebrowism en · NOUN

Etymology

From middlebrow + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Middlebrow attitudes generally; the quality of being middlebrow.
    • In fact, there were critics who saw middlebrowism itself as one of the aesthetic faces of Stalinism. 2001, Norman Podhoretz, Ex-Friends, page 181:
    • If we wish to stop this march of middlebrowism, education must revamp both its philosophy and its objectives. 1968, Henry Winthrop, Ventures in Social Interpretation, page 116:
    • As Joan Rubin observes in The Making of Middlebrow Culture, the critical backlash against middlebrowism emerged as an eleventh-hour barrier against the erosion of highbrow authority. 2021, John Howland, Hearing Luxe Pop, page 78: