pharisaicalness
nounEtymology From pharisaical + -ness.
1
Christianity The quality of being pharisaical.
- Romanticism fumes against what it sees as the puritanism and pharisaicalness of mainstream culture, while ultimately remaining blind to the fact that it's entirely dependent upon embodying the very thing it ridicules.2014, Mark Sayers, Facing Leviathan: Leadership, Influence, and Creating in a Cultural Storm:
- Related terms
- pharisaic, pharisaical, pharisaically, pharisaism