English edit

Etymology edit

Ibsen +‎ -ism

Proper noun edit

Ibsenism

  1. The dramatic practice or purpose characteristic of the writings of Henrik Ibsen, whose best-known plays deal with conventional hypocrisies, the story in each play thus developing a definite moral problem.
    • 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XIII [Uniform ed., p. 143]:
      Thus reasoned Mrs. Failing, in the facile vein of Ibsenism. She imagined herself to be a cold-eyed Scandinavian heroine.