middlebrowism

English

Etymology

From middlebrow +‎ -ism.

Noun

middlebrowism (uncountable)

  1. Middlebrow attitudes generally; the quality of being middlebrow.
    • 1968, Henry Winthrop, Ventures in Social Interpretation, page 116:
      If we wish to stop this march of middlebrowism, education must revamp both its philosophy and its objectives.
    • 2001, Norman Podhoretz, Ex-Friends, page 181:
      In fact, there were critics who saw middlebrowism itself as one of the aesthetic faces of Stalinism.
    • 2021, John Howland, Hearing Luxe Pop, page 78:
      As Joan Rubin observes in The Making of Middlebrow Culture, the critical backlash against middlebrowism emerged as an eleventh-hour barrier against the erosion of highbrow authority.
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