Noun: academicism ,a-ku'de-mi,si-zum
- Orthodoxy of a scholastic variety
"His arguments displayed a rigorous academicism typical of medieval philosophy";
- scholasticism, academism
- Purely speculative thoughts and attitudes
"This original book not only initiates such an engagement, it avoids the academicism of much political theory by demonstrating how concepts of justice actually shape public policy"
- A style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art
"The setting and treatment of the subject here are typical of his artistic approach, which lies between the idealized academicism of Bouguereau and the social realism of Daumier";
- academic art, academism
Derived forms: academicisms
Type of: artistic style, idiom, speculativeness, traditionalism, traditionality
Encyclopedia: Academicism