The Collaborative International Dictionary
Didacticism \Di*dac"ti*cism\, n. The didactic method or system.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) An artistic philosophy that emphasises instructional and informative quality over mere entertainment. 2 (context countable English) A work, statement, etc. of this kind.
Wikipedia
Didacticism is a philosophy that emphasizes instructional and informative qualities in literature and other types of art.
Usage examples of "didacticism".
The novel, somewhat tinged but scarcely marred by moral didacticism, tells of the artificial human being moulded from charnel fragments by Victor Frankenstein, a young Swiss medical student.
The dish face contained nothing but the mild didacticism appropriate to an academic.
Gendibal gambled on complete certainty, driving in with a didacticism that would not allow the First Speaker to recover.
Edgar Hunily starts with a sleep-walker digging a grave, but is later impaired by touches of Godwinian didacticism.
This impossible female is carried from infancy up to grandmotherhood, and is, I believe, still leisurely pursuing her way down to the tomb in an ecstatic state of uninterrupted didacticism.
Now, as to the sermon -- a proud and arrogant man, such as yourself -- with an admittedly admirable quality of didacticism about him -- was given to doing research in the area of a certain disfiguring and degenerative disease.
Now, as to the sermon, a proud and arrogant man, such as yourself, with an admittedly admirable quality of didacticism about him, was given to doing research in the area of a certain disfiguring and degenerative disease.
The victory of the English school of romanticists influenced Charles Brockden Brown, the first professional American author, to throw off the yoke of classical didacticism and regularity and to write a group of Gothic romances, in which the imagination was given a freer rein than the intellect.