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Grundyism

Grundyism noun: narrow and unintelligent conventionalism.

Noun

Grundyism (uncountable)

  1. narrow and unintelligent conventionalism

Grundyism meaning in Tamil

Grundyism in Tamil

பொய்யொழுக்கம்

Origin of Grundyism

From Grundy + -ism, after Mrs Grundy, a minor character in Thomas Morton's play Speed the Plough (1798) who came to personify the tyranny of conventional propriety.

Questions about Grundyism

What does Grundyism mean?
Grundyism means narrow and unintelligent conventionalism.
What is Grundyism in Tamil?
Grundyism in Tamil is பொய்யொழுக்கம். See Grundyism meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Grundyism?
Grundyism is a noun.

Words near Grundyism in the dictionary

  1. Grundy County
  2. Grundy number
  3. Grundy numbers
  4. grundy-swallow
  5. Grundyish
  6. Grundyism
  7. Grundyist
  8. Grundyists
  9. Grundyite
  10. Grundyites
  11. grundylow

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Grundyism (page history and authors); Grundyism (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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