academicism
ac·a·dem·i·cism [ ˌa-kə-ˈde-mə-ˌsi-zəm]
[ˌa-kə-ˈde-mə-ˌsi-zəm]
variants: or less commonly academism \ ə-ˈka-də-ˌmi-zəm \
1 : the doctrines of Plato's Academy specifically : the skeptical doctrines of the later Academy holding that nothing can be known — compare pyrrhonism 2 : a formal academic quality (as in art or music) 3 : purely speculative thoughts and attitudes
First Known Use of academicism
1610, in the meaning defined at sense 1
History and Etymology for academicism
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