ACADEMICISM


Meaning of ACADEMICISM in English

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

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.