English

Alternative forms

• academicism
• academism

Noun

Academicism ‎(plural Academicisms)

1. (classical studies, sometimes capitalized) 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.]^[1]

References

1. ↑ Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

English

Alternative forms

• Academicism
• academism

Noun

academicism ‎(plural academicisms)

1. (classical studies, sometimes capitalized) 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.]^[1]
2. (art, literature) Traditional or orthodox formalism; conventionalism.
3. Speculative thoughts and attitudes.
4. A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.

Related terms

• academicist

Translations

References

1. ↑ Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.