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titanism en · NOUN

Etymology

From Titan + -ism.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Nonconformism; rebellion against prevailing social and artistic conventions, especially when it involves grandiosity or hubris.
   • For Cerny, too, modern subjectivism, specifically moral subjectivism, is also the source of titanism. 1989, Erazim Kohák, Jan Patočka, Jan Patocka: Philosophy and Selected Writings, page 141:
   • Critics have argued that Frankenstein is a protest against Romantic titanism, against the masculine aggressiveness that lies concealed beneath the dreams of Romantic idealism. 1993, Audrey Fisch, Anne K. Mellor, Esther H. Schor, The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein, page 89:
   • Sexual titanism is always weakness. 1990, Stanley B. Winters, T.G.Masaryk (1850-1937): Volume 1: Thinker and Politician, page 80:
   • We will do well not to understand too quickly what is being fought there beneath curse and entreaty, prayer and blasphemy, as our own; not to classify it too nimbly as an ancient version of one of our modern religious titanisms. 1980, Gerhard von Rad, God at Work in Israel, page 202:

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