The practice of apprehending something only with the intellect; the exercise of the intellect alone. Also: devotion to intellectual pursuits.
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| 释义 | the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > intellectual superiority > [noun] > intellectual matters > devotion to (7) intellectualism1800 The practice of apprehending something only with the intellect; the exercise of the intellect alone. Also: devotion to intellectual pursuits. bluestockingism1812 The condition, characteristics, or behaviour of a bluestocking (bluestocking, n. 1); intellectualism, or the affectation of this, in a woman. Cf. bl… blue1824 In extended use: the quality or state of being literary or ‘blue’ (see sense A. 8); female intellectualism. rare. cerebralism1881 the theory that mental operations arise from the action of the brain; also, intellectualism. eggheadism1956 egg-headedness1959 eggheadery1962 |
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