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ACADEMISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does academism mean?
• ACADEMISM (noun)
The noun ACADEMISM has 1 sense:
1. orthodoxy of a scholastic variety
Familiarity information: ACADEMISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Orthodoxy of a scholastic variety
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
academicism; academism; scholasticism
Hypernyms ("academism" is a kind of...):
traditionalism; traditionality (strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings)
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