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Definition of dogmatism
1 : the expression of an opinion or belief as if it were a fact : positiveness in assertion of opinion especially when unwarranted or arrogant
2 : a viewpoint or system of ideas based on insufficiently examined premises
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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 of dogmatism from the Web
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The ardent dogmatism of 1917 seems almost unimaginable today; politics are flickering and ephemeral, menacing but ridiculous.
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Most are Israeli liberals, but a couple of right-wing hardliners get into testy exchanges with the director which only serve to illustrate the unyielding dogmatism that threatens every attempt at political compromise in the region.
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The decades of warnings against dietary cholesterol provide a classic case of this unwarranted dogmatism.
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But, of course, that’s a professor from Harvard, hotbed of unpatriotic leftist dogmatism, at least for the likes of Fox News Channel, Steve Bannon and Rush Limbaugh.
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But, of course, that’s a professor from Harvard, hotbed of unpatriotic leftist dogmatism, at least for the likes of Fox News Channel, Steve Bannon and Rush Limbaugh.
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Singing with earnest clarity, Father John Misty indicts selfishness, ignorance, distraction, vanity, politics, self-delusion, dogmatism, technocracy, God and, by no means least, himself.
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Origin and Etymology of dogmatism
see dogma
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