academicism

2 definitions found

academicism - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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academicism - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  academicism
      n 1: orthodoxy of a scholastic variety [syn: scholasticism,
           academicism, academism]