The Collaborative International Dictionary
Officialism \Of*fi"cial*ism\, n. The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism.
Officialism may often drift into blunders.
--Smiles.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The rigid, perfunctory and literal adherence to official duties and regulations 2 Officials collectively
Usage examples of "officialism".
His stiff, grim figure, the embodiment of officialism, in full Court dress, was supported on either hand by his secretary and interpreter, almost as resplendent as himself.
Nor would Areopagus or Akropolis be puzzled so much had St Paul preached to them the modern European Christianity with its complicated spirit of all kinds of compromises with Heaven and Hell, compromise with the State, Plutocracy, Nationalism, Imperialism, Conquest, War, Diplomacy, Secular Philosophy, Secular Science, Agnostic Parliaments, Tribal Chauvinism, Education, Officialism, Bureaucracy, etc.