Academicism

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Academicism \Ac`a*dem"i*cism\, n.
     1. A tenet of the Academic philosophy.
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     2. A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  academicism
       n : orthodoxy of a scholastic variety [syn: {scholasticism}, {academism}]