professorialism

From professorial +‎ -ism.

professorialism (uncountable)

1. The manners or habits of a professor.
   • 1863, “Our Collegiate Course”, in The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, page 76:

     Another class there is who may receive profit from our humble efforts, and find their home-hours blessed by our monthly professorialism —those who, in the morning of family life, find it their duty to be "stayers at home," and whom even the fascinations of institute life and progress cannot tempt from a wife's side, from child-training, or from the sadder sick couch which demands the silent, loving watchfulness of the untasked hours.

   • 1982, Charles Hunt Page, Fifty Years in the Sociological Enterprise: A Lucky Journey, page 45:

     Lynd's great generosity, his disdain of "professorialisms," his eagerness to learn from his students were important but too often unrealized desiderata of effective graduate teaching — as I was to appreciate more fully in later years.

   • 2017, Francis Ames-Lewis, Reactions to the Master:

     In the interests of academic egalitarianism we decided to approach scholars nearer the beginnings than the ends of their careers: we wanted to encourage free exchange rather than de-haut en-bas professorialism.

2. The state of being a professor; professorship.
   • 2010, Colleen Kelli, Fire in the Hole:

     I don't want to scale the ladder of professorialism towards another goal that's as difficult to attain as the goal at the end of the ladder I've been on for the last fifteen years.

   • 2013, Fellow Passenger, Geoffrey Household:

     I determined to observe Bloomsbury—not the totem worshippers of professorialism, but the large-hearted visitors of colour.

3. The quality of being professor-like; didactic, academic, erudite, stuffy, and/or pedantic.
   • 1873, William Maccall, The Newest Materialism, page 53:

     The frigid professorialism of Kant's philosophy robbed it of all dynamic principle .

   • 1917 November, “Personalities in the Wireless World: Captain Rupert Stanley”, in The Wireless World, volume 5, page 519:

     His training and practice as Electrical Engineer corrected any tendency towards high-and-dry professorialism, and the wireless section of the Telegraphic Department was established ab initio on those practical progressive lines which have been maintained ever since .

   • 2011, Anna Maria Wasyl, Genres Rediscovered, page 226:

     The point is though that (this is at least my impression) this sort of themes and this sort of humor give some flavor of 'professorialism', or even 'easy professorialism' I would say to Anonym's epigrams which is wholly absent in Luxorius.