Anti-intellectualism is hostility towards and mistrust of
intellect,
intellectuals, and
intellectual pursuits, usually expressed as the derision of
education,
philosophy,
literature,
art, and
science, as impractical and contemptible. Alternatively, self-described intellectuals who are alleged to fail to adhere to rigorous standards of scholarship may be described as anti-intellectuals although pseudo-intellectualism is a more commonly, and perhaps more accurately, used description for this phenomenon.