English

Noun

Academism ‎(uncountable)

1. (obsolete): The philosophy advocated by the Platonic Academy; Platonism, skepticism.
   • 1733, Andrew Baxter, An Inquiry into the Nature of the Human Soul. VOL. II, A. Millar (1745), page 254:

     […] , since this is the great principle of Academism and Scepticism, That Truth cannot be perceived, […]

English

Noun

academism ‎(plural academisms)

1. Alternative form of academicism. [First attested in the mid 18th century.]^[1]
   • 1912, Haldane Macfall, A History of Painting: The Modern Genius Part Eight, T. C. and E. C. Jack, page 87:

     For art, academism is death. Academism is the painting in the manner of some one else, whether that other be Greek or Florentine, […]

   • 1935, “The Artist and His Means of Expression”, in The Canadian Author, volume 13-15, Canadian Authors Association, page 11:

     Contemporary Canadian art suffers from new academisms. […] , her reaction is through Keats, Shelley and Byron. Her writing, based on these is perfection itself but still an academism and therefore non-contributive.

References

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