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What does intellectualism mean?

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Noun
  1. The use or development of the intellect.
  2. (philosophy) The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.
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Even a Vietnam War hero from the Northeast came across as too steeped in intellectualism and internationalism to understand military families.
One possible explanation relates to differing attitudes between the two cultures regarding intellectualism and scholarship.
There is a hole at the core of his personality, and his florid prose and arid intellectualism has, for too long, prevented us from admitting it.
But he did not go in for intellectualism, he developed an emotional approach to classical music, appealing to the common man.
His restless intellectualism curiously mirrors the expansive lives of the nomads and Australian cowboys he so much admires.
That intellectualism eventually gave way to a certain kind of even less-compelling placidness.

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