ideologismn.
/ˌʌɪdɪˈɒlədʒɪz(ə)m/, /ˌɪdɪˈɒlədʒɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌaɪdiˈɑlədʒɪz(ə)m/, /ˌɪdiˈɑlədʒɪz(ə)m/ Adherence or conformity to an ideology or doctrine, esp. to an inflexible or impractical degree. Also occasionally: an instance of this.
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1854 Jrnl. Psychol. Med. & Mental Pathol. 7 351 The amendment had no just bearing on the doctrine of Locke, however, it might have hit the sensationalism of Gassendi and Hobbes, or the subsequent ideologism of Condillac.
1889 J. L. M. Curry Constit. Govt. in Spain vii. 78 A republic,..with agents having the indecision of Figueras, the pliancy of Py i Margall, the ideologism of Salmeron.
1915 Musical Q. 1 448 Innocent of ideologisms, of romanticisms, of futile contempt for the art of the past, the Gesamtkunstwerk already stirs the intuition of Italians in the eighteenth century.
1939 Times 30 Mar. 14 The Third Reich exercises on the Continent ‘at least as great a power of attraction as the dangerous ideologism of the Foreign Office’.
1970 Manch. Guardian Weekly 26 Sept. 19 A flexibility which was denied to the Labour Party by its dead weight of ‘ideologism’.
1991 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 85 341/2 These relationships..are generally governed by pragmatism..rather than by ideologism.
2007 Chicago Sun Times (Nexis) 11 Feb. a14 He reiterated his argument that the ideologism plaguing Washington, ‘the smallness of our politics’, is enervating national debate over the really important issues.
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