high-browism Definition

highbrow (often derog)
noun

1. An intellectual or learned person.

Thesaurus: intellectual, scholar, savant, classicist, aesthete, mastermind, brain, egghead (slang); Antonym: lowbrow.

adj

1. Said of art, literature, etc: intellectual; cultured. Compare middlebrow, lowbrow.

Thesaurus: bookish, brainy, cultivated, erudite, deep, intellectual, sophisticated.

Derivative: high-browism
adj

Etymology: 19c.