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synonyms for philistinism
- bewilderment
- disregard
- illiteracy
- insensitivity
- blindness
- callowness
- crudeness
- darkness
- denseness
- dumbness
- fog
- incapacity
- incomprehension
- innocence
- nescience
- oblivion
- obtuseness
- rawness
- sciolism
- shallowness
- simplicity
- unawareness
- unconsciousness
- uncouthness
- unenlightenment
- unfamiliarity
- vagueness
- benightedness
- empty-headedness
- half-knowledge
- inscience
- lack of education
- mental incapacity
- naïveté
- unscholarliness
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How to use philistinism in a sentence
I am subject to these occasional outbreaks—these revolts against philistinism.
Mount Royal, Volume 2 of 3 | Mary Elizabeth BraddonTo say that you do not like them is confession of your own philistinism.
The Feasts of Autolycus | Elizabeth Robins PennellFor pure philistinism I don't think I know any town that equals it.
Town Life in Australia | R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny
A great deal of Tennyson is merely philistinism made musical.
The Vagabond in Literature | Arthur RickettThe standpoint of Ranke, whose history is detailed and in certain respects exhaustive, is that of general bourgeois philistinism.
German Society at the Close of the Middle Ages | Ernest Belfort Bax
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