Gradgrindery
English
Etymology
gradgrind + -ery
Noun
Gradgrindery (uncountable)
- Impatient technical pedantry that dismisses human factors.
- 2001, Justin Lewis, Constructing Public Opinion: How Political Elites Do What They Like and Why We Seem to Go Along with It:
- For others, the process of reducing words to numbers is like sucking the life out of language, a remorseless exercise in Gradgrindery whose limited worldview masquerades as objectivity and universal truth.
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