pronunc at philistine +ˌizəm noun
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Usage: often capitalized
: the attitudes, beliefs, and conduct characteristic of the modern philistine : materialism , barbarism
his protest against the philistinism of bourgeois values, emphasizes that art should be appreciated for its own sake — Bernard Smith
what he called the cant of the great middle part of the English nation, what we call its Philistinism — Matthew Arnold