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pharisaicalness en · NOUN

Etymology

From pharisaical + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being pharisaical.
    • Romanticism fumes against what it sees as the puritanism and pharisaicalness of mainstream culture, while ultimately remaining blind to the fact that it's entirely dependent upon embodying the very thing it ridicules. 2014, Mark Sayers, Facing Leviathan: Leadership, Influence, and Creating in a Cultural Storm:

Relateds

pharisaically · pharisaical · pharisaic · pharisaism