Babbittismn.
/ˈbabɪtɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈbæbəˌtɪzəm/ Originally and chiefly North American.
= Babbitry n.; (also) an example of this.
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > [noun] > philistinism
Gothicism1710
Gothism1715
philistinism1793
vandalism1798
Babbitry1920
Babbittism1925
1925 Kingsport (Tennessee) Times 1 July 4/2 It is senseless Babbittism to proclaim the purity of Tophet when flames are bursting from the openings.
1925 Spectator 19 Dec. 1146/2 In his controversy with M. Paul Bourget [he] reveals his almost incredible ‘Babbittism’.
1955 A. Koestler Trail of Dinosaur i. 48 The seven deadly fallacies of what you may allow me to call Left Babbittism.
1995 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 29 Sept. Anglo-American ‘culture’..is a close-knit, hate-infested, Babbittism, which you and your publication, alas, typify.
2001 E. Jolas et al. Man from Babel vii. 117 Many of the writers, painters and musicians who had fled from prohibition and Babbittism felt they were engaged in a conscious revolt against their native land.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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n.1925- bourdon spiral
- bourdon stop
- bourdon tube
- bourdonasse
- bourdonnée
- bourdons
- bourg
- bourgade
- bourgeois
- bourgeois objectivism
- bourgeois-democratic
- bourgeois-liberal
- bourgeois-looking
- bourgeois-minded
- bourgeois-mindedness
- bourgeois-shocker
- bourgeois-shocking
- bourgeoisdemocratic
- bourgeoisdom
- bourgeoise
- bourgeoises
- bourgeoisie
- bourgeoisies
- bourgeoisification
- bourgeoisifications