Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Arrogant, stubborn assertion of opinion or belief.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The character of being dogmatic; authoritative, positive, or arrogant assertion of doctrines or opinions.
- n. In the Kantian philosophy, a dogmatic method in metaphysics; an uncritical faith in the presumptions of reason.
- n. The doctrine of the sect of physicians known as Dogmatists.
Wiktionary
- n. The manner or character of a dogmatist; arrogance or positiveness in stating opinion.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The manner or character of a dogmatist; arrogance or positiveness in stating opinion.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the intolerance and prejudice of a bigot
Examples
“Pascal, in point of fact, embraces many points of view; and, if he leans sometimes to scepticism, he sees also the strong side of what he calls dogmatism or rational philosophy.”
“There are many religious who share your belief that dogmatism is someone's bad attitude.”
“Gilfillan and Fairservice are exactly alike, and both are distinguished from Moniplies in their scornfully exclusive dogmatism, which is indeed the distinctive plague-spot of the lower evangelical sect everywhere, and the worst blight of the narrow natures, capable of its zealous profession.”
“Actually I don't really mind your ardor, though your dogmatism is a bit disconcerting.”
“From UC-Berkeley, the school that told us about the "psychological factors" underpinning conservatism i.e., "fear and aggression," "dogmatism," etc., comes a brand-new effort to expand the horizons of human knowledge:”
“Certainly she has not let herself be won - and today every kind of dogmatism stands sad and discouraged.”
“I don't think that simply having a view equates to "dogmatism".”
“Agreed about Dawkins here, too - and yes, any kind of dogmatism where one looks for things to prove their argument rather than looking to discover.”
“She had all that naive dogmatism which is so pathetic, and sometimes achieves such great results.”
“I think what Linker has in mind is Rorty’s dogmatic anti-dogmatism, which is both annoying and, I think, irrelevant to his agreement with Rawls (as described by Linker above, anyway) on public liberalism. david Says:”
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Psychology
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GRE
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GRE Study guide
Going through the Magoosh website, words I pulled from the verbal section. 2012.
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GRE
GRE words from Princeton Review guide, ETS GRE Book from 2010 (for revised test), New Yorker/NY Times articles.
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ymmez22's Words
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My GRE
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Clarification
Words I only knew from context clues.
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List of ISMs
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