The Collaborative International Dictionary
Encyclopedism \En*cy`clo*pe"dism\, n. The art of writing or compiling encyclopedias; also, possession of the whole range of knowledge; encyclopedic learning.
Wiktionary
alt. encyclopedic knowledge or learning. n. encyclopedic knowledge or learning.
WordNet
n. profound scholarly knowledge [syn: eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship, encyclopaedism]
Wikipedia
Encyclopedism is an outlook according to which knowledge can effectively be brought together in a single work or encyclopedia.
Usage examples of "encyclopedism".
As a myth, science fiction speaks in their own language to those persons who “think Western,” those people who are the product of the logic of Descartes, the physics of Newton, the encyclopedism of Diderot, the skepticism of Voltaire, the practical experimentation of Franklin, the biology of Darwin, the inventions of Edison, and the revised relativistic physics of Einstein.