titanism

plural titanisms

1. countableuncountableNonconformism; rebellion against prevailing social and artistic conventions, especially when it involves grandiosity or hubris.

   Sexual titanism is always weakness.

   1990, Stanley B. Winters, T.G.Masaryk (1850-1937): Volume 1: Thinker and Politician, page 80

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   We will do well not to understand too quickly what is being fought there beneath curse and entreaty, prayer and blasphemy, as our own; not to classify it too nimbly as an ancient version of one of our modern religious titanisms.

   1980, Gerhard von Rad, God at Work in Israel, page 202

   For Cerny, too, modern subjectivism, specifically moral subjectivism, is also the source of titanism.

   1989, Erazim Kohák, Jan Patočka, Jan Patocka: Philosophy and Selected Writings, page 141

   Critics have argued that Frankenstein is a protest against Romantic titanism, against the masculine aggressiveness that lies concealed beneath the dreams of Romantic idealism.

   1993, Audrey Fisch, Anne K. Mellor, Esther H. Schor, The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein, page 89