dogmatism

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Actually I don't really mind your ardor, though your dogmatism is a bit disconcerting.

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  1. noun Arrogant, stubborn assertion of opinion or belief.

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  • Their rigid dogmatism, their intolerance and inordinate ambition could leave him no doubt that if they once arose to power the activity of the Ulemas, once by good fortune overthrown, would be again resumed by them to a stronger and more dangerous degree. —  Akbar, Emperor of India
  • Actually I don't really mind your ardor, though your dogmatism is a bit disconcerting. —  RealClimate
  • The continuous reproduction of erroneous practices and the recuperation of these erroneous practices by radical petit - bourgeois elements has led to very ultra-leftist practices, dogmatism, and a fertile ground for bureaucraticism. —  Anarkismo.net
  • The vestiges of Puritan dogmatism -- which H.L. Mencken memorably called the "inferior man's hatred of the man who is having a better time" -- have made it difficult to open a serious debate nationwide.
  • Both science and religion wage a "tireless battle against skepticism and dogmatism, against unbelief and superstition" with the goal "toward God!" —  TPN :: GDay World
 

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  1. = French dogmatisme, from Middle Latin dogmatismus, from Greek as if *δογματισμός, from δογματίζειν, dogmatize: see dogmatize.
 

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/ˈdɑgmətɪzm/
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