philistinism

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English philistine

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.

English -ism

English philistinism

From philistine + -ism.

Noun

philistinism (countable and uncountable, plural philistinisms)

1. A materialistic attitude accompanied by ignorance of artistic or cultural matters.
   • 2010 February 5, Mike Marqusee, “Flamenco's humane roots”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     It's impossible to tell the story of flamenco without talking about Lorca, who found in it a source of inspiration in a lifelong political-cultural-sexual struggle against bourgeois philistinism.

Translations

philistinism

• Finnish: filistealaisuus
• French: béotisme (fr) m
• German: Banausentum n, Banausie f, Philisterei f, Spießbürgertum n
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: мещанстве (meŝanstve)

• Polish: mieszczaństwo (pl) n
• Portuguese: filistinismo m
• Russian: меща́нство (ru) n (meščánstvo), фили́стерство (ru) n (filísterstvo)
• Volapük: filist (vo)