Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Philistinism

Philistinism , noun

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. — M. Arnold