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philistinism
noun
(Phi-lis-tine)
a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia
philistinism
noun
(Phi-lis-tine)
a person who is guided by materialism and is usually disdainful of intellectual or artistic values
philistinism
noun
(Phi-lis-tine)
one uninformed in a special area of knowledge
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philistinism
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materialism
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snobbery
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elitism
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snobbishness
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priggishness
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pedantry
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intellectualism
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dilettantism
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cynicism
,
obscurantism
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parochialism
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provincialism
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prudery
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egotism
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superficiality
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chauvinism
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irrationalism
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pompousness
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snobbism
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ethnocentrism
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pretentiousness
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misanthropy
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aestheticism
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insularity
,
illiberalism
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perversity
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nihilism
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puritanism
,
pomposity
,
banality
,
primitivism
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conformism
,
pretension
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dogmatism
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popery
,
infantilism
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anglophilia
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vulgarization
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attitudinizing
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harlotry
,
malignity
,
superciliousness
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historicism
,
charlatanry
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brutalism
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scholasticism
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clannishness
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slovenliness
,
ineffectuality
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excrescence
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dandyism
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immoderation
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lunacies
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fatuity
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animality
,
liberalism
,
pusillanimity
,
vulgarisation
,
abjection
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venality
,
reductionism
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unworldliness
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acquisitiveness
,
ingenuousness
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royalism
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presumptuousness
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bohemianism
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outlawry
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deracination
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eccentricity
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instrumentalism
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presentism
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solipsism
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turpitude
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leftism
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unreason
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lechery
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academicism
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stodginess
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reactionism
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grubbiness
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decadence
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medievalism
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industrialism
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ritualism
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daftness
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obtuseness
,
political correctness
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revisionism
,
articulacy
,
buncombe
,
essentialism
,
clownishness
,
tawdriness
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postmodernism
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dirigisme
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grotesquery
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puerility
,
vacuousness
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contrariness
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philistinism
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