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noun

Intellectualism n.

Intellectual power; intellectuality.

The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.

Preference for activities involving exercise of the intellect; sometimes, An excessive emphasis on abstract or intellectual matters with deprecation of the value of feelings.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Intellectualism" Quotes from Famous Books

... this critical century, Don Quixote has also contaminated himself with criticism, and he must charge against himself, victim of intellectualism and sentimentalism, who when he is most sincere appears most affected. The poor man wants to rationalize the irrational, and irrationalize the rational. And he falls victim of the inevitable despair of a rationalism century, of which ...

— Rosinante to the Road Again • John Dos Passos

... last summary I suggested that barbarism, as we mean it, is not mere ignorance or even mere cruelty. It has a more precise sense, and means militant hostility to certain necessary human ideas. I took the case of the vow or the contract which Prussian intellectualism would destroy. I urged that the Prussian is a spiritual barbarian, because he is not bound by his own past, any more than a man in a dream. He avows that when he promised to respect a frontier on Monday he did not foresee what he calls "the necessity" ...

— New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 - From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index • Various

... in this particular essay is that what modern intellectualism has done is to make 'the hero extraordinary, the tale ordinary,' whereas the fairy tale makes 'the hero ordinary, ...

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Patrick Braybrooke