ˌakəˈdeməˌsizəm noun
also acad·e·mism əˈkadəˌmizəm
( -s )
1. sometimes capitalized : a tenet of Academic philosophy
2. : academic manner, style, or content : formalism , conventionality
writing lacks freshness if it is weighted down with academicism
a modernistic composer who broke away from the fixed norms of musical academicism
3. : purely speculative thoughts and attitudes divorced from immediate or practical effect
he lived in a dreamy, unrealistic world of academicism