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Origin and history of anti-intellectualism

anti-intellectualism(n.)

1904, from anti- + intellectualism; in some cases from anti-intellectual + -ism.

also from 1904

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anti-intellectual(adj.)

"scorning intellectuals and their ways," 1821, from anti- + intellectual. As a noun meaning "an anti-intellectual person" from 1913.

intellectualism(n.)

1818, in philosophy, "belief in the supremacy of the intellect," probably based on German Intellektualismus (said by Klein to have been coined 1803 by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling (1775-1854) from Late Latin intellectualis); see intellectual + -ism. Meaning "devotion to intellectuality" also is from 1818.

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