Category:Philistinism

Phi*lis"tin*ism, n.

Defn: the condition, character, aims, and habits of the class called Philistines. See philistine, 3. [recent] carlyle. On the side of beauty and taste, vulgarity; on the side of morals and Feeling, coarseness; on the side of mind and spirit, unintelligence, -- this is philistinism. M. Arnold.