titanism
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
titanism (countable and uncountable, plural titanisms)
- Nonconformism; rebellion against prevailing social and artistic conventions, especially when it involves grandiosity or hubris.
- 1980, Gerhard von Rad, God at Work in Israel, page 202:
- 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.
- 1989, Erazim Kohák, Jan Patočka, Jan Patocka: Philosophy and Selected Writings, page 141:
- For Cerny, too, modern subjectivism, specifically moral subjectivism, is also the source of titanism.
- 1990, Stanley B. Winters, T.G.Masaryk (1850-1937): Volume 1: Thinker and Politician, page 80:
- Sexual titanism is always weakness.
- 1993, Audrey Fisch, Anne K. Mellor, Esther H. Schor, The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein, page 89:
- Critics have argued that Frankenstein is a protest against Romantic titanism, against the masculine aggressiveness that lies concealed beneath the dreams of Romantic idealism.
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French titanisme.
Noun edit
titanism n (uncountable)
Declension edit
declension of titanism (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) titanism | titanismul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) titanism | titanismului |
| vocative | titanismule | |