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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Intellectualism \In'tel*lec"tu*al*ism\, noun
1. Intellectual power; intellectuality.
2. The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.
3. Preference for activities involving exercise of the intellect; sometimes, an excessive emphasis on abstract or intellectual matters with deprecation of the value of feelings. [PJC]
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