titanism
Etymology
From Titan + -ism.
titanism means nonconformism; rebellion against prevailing social and artistic conventions, especially when it involves grandiosity or hubris. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
TITANISM — [Noun] A spirit of defiant revolt against established social or artistic conventions, often characterized by grandiosity or hubris. From Titan (in Greek mythology, one of a family of giants who rebelled against the gods) + the suffix -ism (denoting a distinctive practice, system, or philosophy). Unlike nonconformism, which suggests a quiet refusal to adhere, or iconoclasm, which targets specific cherished idols, titanism is a mythic, wholesale assault on the very architecture of the given order. It is the composer drafting a symphony for a thousand players, the revolutionary whose manifesto seeks to shatter the very concept of government, and the artist who sets their own monumental canvas ablaze rather than see it catalogued—a magnificent, often doomed, protest against the very notion of a ceiling.
noun
- Nonconformism; rebellion against prevailing social and artistic conventions, especially when it involves grandiosity or hubris.“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.”