dogmatism

noun

dog·ma·tism ˈdȯg-mə-ˌti-zəm

ˈdäg-

: the expression of an opinion or belief as if it were a fact : positiveness in assertion of opinion especially when unwarranted or arrogant

: a viewpoint or system of ideas based on insufficiently examined premises

Examples of dogmatism in a Sentence

a man much given to inflexible dogmatism when it came to the role of government in regulating the economy

Recent Examples on the Web Today, religious dogmatism is often equated with vaccine hesitancy and resistance to basic scientific truths like evolution. —

Meg Leja, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2023 Fear and power, hubris and guilt, not naiveté and dogmatism, inspired the final decision to invade Iraq. —

Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020 To Start a War will go a long way to solidify prevailing views about the dysfunction, naiveté, and dogmatism of Bush and his advisers. —

Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020 The country’s religious dogmatism began to ease early in the 2000s, when tens of thousands of Saudis studied in the United States. —

Vivian Nereim, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023 The film makes the case that enmity, even if it seems destined, can be subverted, and invites viewers, instead of trusting dogmatism, to rely on grace. —

Joshua Seftel, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2022 The dependence on individual perspectives as much as knowledge grounded in research and expertise leads to an increasing conflation of faith with science, memory with history, and dogmatism with truth. —

Eden McLean, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2023 Well, as the meta-analysis linked above notes: Our review suggests that there is a relatively strong connection between dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity, on the one hand, and various measures of political conservatism, on the other. —

Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 18 July 2011 Hoover’s pragmatism helped curb, at various junctures, his dogmatism and extremist tactics. —

Jack Goldsmith, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2022 See More

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