Philistinism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PHILISTINISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• lack of culture, a materialistic outlook
• a person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts
• a member of a non-Semitic people of ancient southern Palestine, who came into conflict with the Israelites during the 12th and 11th centuries BC.
• The condition, character, aims, and habits of the class called Philistines. See Philistine, 3.
• a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters
• hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia

Words related to PHILISTINISM

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Words that contain PHILISTINISM

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How to use PHILISTINISM in a sentence

• Women of narrow hearts often remain unyielding through a certain philistinism of virtue.
• Culture is far more dangerous than Philistinism because it is more intelligent and more pliant.
• It was certainly a very odd prejudice of English Philistinism which prevented us, for so many centuries, from recognizing a fact so palpable as Irish nationality.
• Provincialism is the soil in which philistinism grows most rapidly and widely.
• She would no longer be the unknown wife of a country banker, moving in a narrow sphere, which was altogether painful to her in its provincial philistinism.
• Mark Twain, in his day, felt the stirrings of revolt, and not all his Philistinism was sufficient to hold him altogether in check.
• The cause of philosophical reform, indeed, cannot be long delayed by any Philistinism in those who, by their professional position, ought to be its most ardent friends.
• And where is this great force of Philistinism now? It is thrust into the second rank, it is become a power of yesterday, it has lost the future.
• In short, I shall be converted to Philistinism, and die in the odor of respectability.
• An intense Philistinism underlay the great spiritual reaction that followed the Revolution, and not even such of its apostles as Wordsworth and Carlyle wholly escaped the taint.
• At once you are covered with reproaches for your philistinism.

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