Phi‐lis″tin‐ism (?), n. The condition, character, aims, and habits of the class called Philistines. See Philistine, 3. Carlyle.
On the side of beauty and taste, vulgarity; on the side of morals and feeling, coarseness; on the side of mind and spirit, unintelligence, — this is Philistinism. M. Arnold.