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professorialism en · NOUN

Etymology

From professorial + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The manners or habits of a professor.
    • Another class there is who may receive profit from our humble efforts, and find their home-hours blessed by our monthly professorialism —those who, in the morning of family life, find it their duty to be "stayers at home," and whom even the fascinations of institute life and progress cannot tempt from a wife's side, from child-training, or from the sadder sick couch which demands the silent, loving watchfulness of the untasked hours. 1863, “Our Collegiate Course”, in The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, page 76:
    • In the interests of academic egalitarianism we decided to approach scholars nearer the beginnings than the ends of their careers: we wanted to encourage free exchange rather than de-haut en-bas professorialism. 2017, Francis Ames-Lewis, Reactions to the Master:
    • Lynd's great generosity, his disdain of "professorialisms," his eagerness to learn from his students were important but too often unrealized desiderata of effective graduate teaching — as I was to appreciate more fully in later years. 1982, Charles Hunt Page, Fifty Years in the Sociological Enterprise: A Lucky Journey, page 45:
  2. (uncountable) The state of being a professor; professorship.
    • I determined to observe Bloomsbury—not the totem worshippers of professorialism, but the large-hearted visitors of colour. 2013, Fellow Passenger, Geoffrey Household:
    • I don't want to scale the ladder of professorialism towards another goal that's as difficult to attain as the goal at the end of the ladder I've been on for the last fifteen years. 2010, Colleen Kelli, Fire in the Hole:
  3. (uncountable) The quality of being professor-like; didactic, academic, erudite, stuffy, and/or pedantic.
    • The point is though that (this is at least my impression) this sort of themes and this sort of humor give some flavor of 'professorialism', or even 'easy professorialism' I would say to Anonym's epigrams which is wholly absent in Luxorius. 2011, Anna Maria Wasyl, Genres Rediscovered, page 226:
    • The frigid professorialism of Kant's philosophy robbed it of all dynamic principle . 1873, William Maccall, The Newest Materialism, page 53:
    • His training and practice as Electrical Engineer corrected any tendency towards high-and-dry professorialism, and the wireless section of the Telegraphic Department was established ab initio on those practical progressive lines which have been maintained ever since . 1917 November, “Personalities in the Wireless World: Captain Rupert Stanley”, in The Wireless World, volume 5, page 519: