Meaning of titanism | Babel Free

Definitions

Nonconformism; rebellion against prevailing social and artistic conventions, especially when it involves grandiosity or hubris.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“We will do well not to understand too quickly what is being fought there beneath curse and entreaty, prayer and blasphemy, as our own; not to classify it too nimbly as an ancient version of one of our modern religious titanisms.”

“For Cerny, too, modern subjectivism, specifically moral subjectivism, is also the source of titanism.”

“Sexual titanism is always weakness.”

“Critics have argued that Frankenstein is a protest against Romantic titanism, against the masculine aggressiveness that lies concealed beneath the dreams of Romantic idealism.”

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