Usually means: Disdain or indifference to culture.
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  1. philistinism: Merriam-Webster
  2. philistinism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Philistinism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Philistinism: Collins English Dictionary
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  6. Philistinism, philistinism: Wordnik
  7. philistinism: Wiktionary
  8. Philistinism, philistinism: Dictionary.com
  9. Philistinism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Philistinism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. philistinism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. philistinism: Rhymezone
  13. Philistinism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. philistinism: FreeDictionary.org
  15. philistinism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Philistinism: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Philistinism: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (philistinism)

▸ noun:  A materialistic attitude accompanied by ignorance of artistic or cultural matters.

Similar:
materialism, aphilanthropy, philodox, babbittry, philobiblist, philodoxer, philozoist, philosophobia, snobbism, Pharisee, more...

Types:
materialism, consumerism, vulgarity, banality, boorishness, crassness, narrow-mindedness, more...

Adjectives:
british, bourgeois, cultural, american, class, english, german, crass, mere, anti, vulgar

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Similar:
materialism, aphilanthropy, philodox, babbittry, philobiblist, philodoxer, philozoist, philosophobia, snobbism, Pharisee, more...

Types:
materialism, consumerism, vulgarity, banality, boorishness, crassness, narrow-mindedness, more...

Adjectives:
british, bourgeois, cultural, american, class, english, german, crass, mere, anti, vulgar



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