Associations to the word «Academicism»

ACADEMICISM, noun. (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.]

ACADEMICISM, noun. (art) (literature) Traditional or orthodox formalism; conventionalism.

ACADEMICISM, noun. Speculative thoughts and attitudes.

ACADEMICISM, noun. A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.

ACADEMICISM, noun. (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.]

ACADEMICISM, noun. Orthodoxy of a scholastic variety.