Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

middlebrowism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mid-dle-brow-ism
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Middlebrow attitudes generally; the quality of being middlebrow.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"If we wish to stop this march of middlebrowism, education must revamp both its philosophy and its objectives."
"In fact, there were critics who saw middlebrowism itself as one of the aesthetic faces of Stalinism."
"As Joan Rubin observes in The Making of Middlebrow Culture, the critical backlash against middlebrowism emerged as an eleventh-hour barrier against the erosion of highbrow authority."

Etymology

From middlebrow + -ism.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does middlebrowism mean?: Middlebrow attitudes generally; the quality of being middlebrow.
Where does middlebrowism come from?: From middlebrow + -ism.

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