bohemianism

plural bohemianisms

1. countableuncountableAlternative letter-case form of Bohemianism.

   Guido moved to Big Sur in the early 1960s, during its heyday of unspoiled bohemianism (alas, after my mother and I had left him).

   2007 January 21, “Letters to the Editor”, in New York Times

plural Bohemianisms · alternative bohemianism

1. countableuncountableA Bohemian lifestyle.

   It was all very well, this Bohemianism of red lamp-shades and cigarettes, but in the cold grey light that filtered through Partridge's grimy windows it did not show to any great advantage.

   1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 130

2. countablerhetoricuncountableA word or phrase characteristic of the Bohemian language.

   […]Pannonianisms are in reality Bohemianisms.

   1961, Slovak Studies, numbers 1–2, page 33

   Synonyms: Czechism, Bohemism