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Anti-intellectual   /ˈænti-ˌɪntəlˈɛktʃuəl/   Listen
Anti-intellectual

noun
1.
A person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits.  Synonyms: lowbrow, philistine.
adjective
1.
Smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values.  Synonym: philistine.






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"Anti-intellectual" Quotes from Famous Books



... teacher of their children, and, if they examine more carefully, three of their last dinner guests, are strolling for hours or for a night, or living for seasons, if not for a lifetime, in that world of superstition and anti-intellectual mentality. Such people are not ill; they are personally not even cranks; they are simply confused and unable to live an ordered intellectual life. Their character and temperament and their personality in every other ...
— Psychology and Social Sanity • Hugo Muensterberg



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