titanism
titanism noun: nonconformism; rebellion against prevailing social and artistic conventions, especially when it involves grandiosity or hubris.
Noun
titanism (countable and uncountable, plural titanisms)
- Nonconformism; rebellion against prevailing social and artistic conventions, especially when it involves grandiosity or hubris.
- We will do well not to understand too quickly what is being fought there beneath curse and entreaty, prayer and blasphemy, as our own; not to classify it too nimbly as an ancient version of one of our modern religious titanisms.1980, Gerhard von Rad, God at Work in Israel, page 202
- For Cerny, too, modern subjectivism, specifically moral subjectivism, is also the source of titanism.1989, Erazim Kohák, Jan Patočka, Jan Patocka: Philosophy and Selected Writings, page 141
Forms of titanism
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Origin of titanism
From Titan + -ism.
Questions about titanism
- What does titanism mean?
- Titanism means nonconformism; rebellion against prevailing social and artistic conventions, especially when it involves grandiosity or hubris.
- What part of speech is titanism?
- Titanism is a noun.
- What is the plural of titanism?
- The plural of titanism is titanisms.
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