Phi*lis"tin*ism (?), n. The condition, character, aims, and habits of
the class called Philistines. See Philistine, 3. [Recent] 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.