professorialism

Noun

professorialism (uncountable)

1. The manners or habits of a professor.
   • Another class there is who may receive profit from our humble efforts, and find their home-hours blessed by our monthly professorialism —those who, in the morning of family life, find it their duty to be "stayers at home," and whom even the fascinations of institute life and progress cannot tempt...1863, “Our Collegiate Course”, in The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, page 76
   • Lynd's great generosity, his disdain of "professorialisms," his eagerness to learn from his students were important but too often unrealized desiderata of effective graduate teaching — as I was to appreciate more fully in later years.1982, Charles Hunt Page, Fifty Years in the Sociological Enterprise: A Lucky Journey, page 45
2. The state of being a professor; professorship.
   • I don't want to scale the ladder of professorialism towards another goal that's as difficult to attain as the goal at the end of the ladder I've been on for the last fifteen years.2010, Colleen Kelli, Fire in the Hole
   • I determined to observe Bloomsbury—not the totem worshippers of professorialism, but the large-hearted visitors of colour.2013, Fellow Passenger, Geoffrey Household
3. The quality of being professor-like; didactic, academic, erudite, stuffy, and/or pedantic.
   • The frigid professorialism of Kant's philosophy robbed it of all dynamic principle .1873, William Maccall, The Newest Materialism, page 53
   • His training and practice as Electrical Engineer corrected any tendency towards high-and-dry professorialism, and the wireless section of the Telegraphic Department was established ab initio on those practical progressive lines which have been maintained ever since .1917 November, “Personalities in the Wireless World: Captain Rupert Stanley”, in The Wireless World, volume 5, page 519