titanism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Nonconformism; rebellion against prevailing social and artistic conventions, especially when it involves grandiosity or hubris.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "For Cerny, too, modern subjectivism, specifically moral subjectivism, is also the source of titanism."
- "Sexual titanism is always weakness."
- "Critics have argued that Frankenstein is a protest against Romantic titanism, against the masculine aggressiveness that lies concealed beneath the dreams of Romantic idealism."