intellectualism

English

Etymology

From intellectual +‎ -ism.

Noun

intellectualism (countable and uncountable, plural intellectualisms)

1. The use or development of the intellect.
   • 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days

     I don't think much of you yet — I wish I could — though you do go talking and lecturing up and down the country to crowded audiences, and are busy with all sorts of philanthropic intellectualism, and circulating libraries and museums, and Heaven only knows what besides, and try to make us think, through newspaper reports, that you are, even as we, of the working classes.

2. (philosophy) The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.
3. (sociology) The use of mental attributes as a criterion or value.

Synonyms

• (doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason): rationalism

Derived terms

• anti-intellectualism
• nonintellectualism

Related terms

• intellectualist

Translations

use or development of intellect

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: intelektualismus m
• Finnish: järjenkäyttö
• Greek: διανοητισμός m (dianoïtismós)
• Russian: интеллектуали́зм (ru) m (intellektualízm)
• Tagalog: pagkamakaisipnon

doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: racionalismus m
• Finnish: intellektualismi (fi)
• Greek: νοησιαρχία (el) f (noïsiarchía), νοησιοκρατία (el) f (noïsiokratía)
• Polish: intelektualizm (pl) m
• Russian: интеллектуали́зм (ru) m (intellektualízm)
• Swedish: intellektualism (sv) c
• Tagalog: pagkamakaisipnon

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Translations to be checked

• German: ^{(please verify)} Intellektualismus m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ^{(please verify)} интелектуалѝзам m

  Roman: ^{(please verify)} intelektualìzam (sh) m

Further reading

• “intellectualism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “intellectualism”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.