Crossword clues for academicism
academicism
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Academicism \Ac`a*dem"i*cism\, n.
A tenet of the Academic philosophy.
A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context classical studies sometimes capitalized English) The doctrines of Plato's academy; specifically the skeptical doctrines of the later academy stating that nothing can be known; a tenet of the academic philosophy; state of being Academic. (First attested in the early 17th century.)Brown, Lesley, ed. ''The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.'' 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 2 (context art literature English) traditional or orthodox formalism; conventionalism. 3 Speculative thoughts and attitudes. 4 A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
WordNet
n. orthodoxy of a scholastic variety [syn: scholasticism, academism]
Usage examples of "academicism".
Indeed it is not in the public interest that straightforwardness should be extirpated root and branch, for the presence of a small modicum of sincerity acts as a wholesome irritant to the academicism of the greatest number, stimulating it to consciousness of its own happy state, and giving it something to look down upon.
With what passionate academicism he devoted himself to assigning phenomena their rightful places in his subtle and intricate theology!
I know how instinctively academicism everywhere must range itself on Mr.
I know also that there is a power before which even academicism must bow, and to this power I look not unhopefully for support.
These questions still interested him, but the flavor of academicism which informed them in the face of the coming catastrophe was becoming more and more evident even to him.
It matters not whether he is professional or amateur, so he is untouched by academicism and has not done so much reading or writing as to impair his mental digestion and his clarity of vision.
French philosophy, after a hundred years of academicism, is still at this point.
The academicism of the Right does not even acknowledge a misery that the academicism of the Left utilizes for ulterior reasons.