banausic

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or pertaining to technical matters; mechanical.

   “It was the Greeks who taught us the dignity of leisure; it is from them that we inherit the perception that the highest life is the life of contemplation. But this respect for leisure, with the Greeks, was accompanied by a contempt for the banausic occupations.”

2. sıfat Uncultured, unrefined, utilitarian.

   “[H]ow graceful and accurate a portrait of Alexandria he manages to convey; Alexandria and its women. […] One could not expect more from an intruder of gifts who almost by mistake pierced the hard banausic shell of Alexandria and discovered himself.”