philistinisms

Noun

philistinism (countable and uncountable, plural philistinisms)

1. A materialistic attitude accompanied by ignorance of artistic or cultural matters.
   • 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.2010 February 5, Mike Marqusee, “Flamenco's humane roots”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2023