philodox

plural philodoxes

1. A person with an excessive interest in his/her own opinions.

   And no people are lesse Philosophers and more foolish, than Platoes Philodoxes, or lovers of their owne opinions.

   1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

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   This, however, is a difficult task that only a true philosopher, and not a mere philodox, will be willing to tackle.

   2003, Heiner Bielefeldt, Symbolic Representation in Kant’s Practical Philosophy

   Consider that without realizing it you may have engaged in acokoinonia (sex without passion or desire), been bored to tears by the company of a philodox (someone in love with their opinions), or suffered from recurrent matutolypea (getting up on the wrong side of the bed).

   2005, Charles Harrington Elster, There’s a Word for It!: A Grandiloquent Guide to Life, p.UNKNOWN (perhaps blurb)

   Synonyms: glory-hound