professorialism noun3 •The manners or habits of a professor. •The quality of being professor-like; didactic, academic, erudite, stuffy, and/or pedantic.The frigid professorialism of Kant's philosophy robbed it of all dynamic principle . — 1873 •The state of being a professor; professorship.I don't want to scale the ladder of professorialism towards another goal that's as difficult to attain as the goal at the end of the ladder I've been on for the last fifteen years. — 2010