#anti-intellectualist

• Anti-intellectualist — Manifesting the characteristics of anti-intellectualism or being an adherent of this movement; adherents or movements that challenge the legitimacy, authority, or value of cultural and scientific elites. In a structural sense, it describes a doctrine or action directed toward minimizing the role of higher education in public life.
• Anti-intellectualist — A woman who is an adherent of anti-intellectualism or who manifests a hostile and distrustful attitude toward cultural and academic elites; a trend, action, or ideology opposing intellectualism. As an adjective inflected in the feminine form, it qualifies institutional measures, political rhetorics, or social manifestations aimed at devaluing higher education and critical thinking.