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Meaning of "encyclopedism" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ENCYCLOPEDISM

encyclopedism  [ɪnˌsaɪkləˈpiːdɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ENCYCLOPEDISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Encyclopedism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ENCYCLOPEDISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Encyclopedism

Encyclopedism is the production of encyclopedias. Though the term can be used to describe any combination of authoring, editing, compiling, indexing, systematizing, publishing, and/or financing an encyclopedia, it most often refers to the enterprise as a whole or to the activities of those in leadership roles. One who practices encyclopedism is an encyclopedist.

Definition of encyclopedism in the English dictionary

The definition of encyclopedism in the dictionary is encyclopedic knowledge. Other definition of encyclopedism is the doctrines, tenets, and views of the eighteenth-century French `Encyclopédistes'.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ENCYCLOPEDISM


absurdism
æbˈsɜːdɪzəm
avant-gardism
ˌævɒŋˈɡɑːdɪzəm
bardism
ˈbɑːdɪzəm
blackguardism
ˈblæɡɑːdɪzəm
Buddhism
ˈbʊdɪzəm
cryptorchidism
krɪpˈtɔːkɪˌdɪzəm
diehardism
ˈdaɪˌhɑːdɪzəm
dudism
ˈduːdɪzəm
encyclopaedism
ɪnˌsaɪkləˈpiːdɪzəm
foodism
ˈfuːdɪzəm
hyperthyroidism
ˌhaɪpəˈθaɪrɔɪˌdɪzəm
hypothyroidism
ˌhaɪpəʊˈθaɪrɔɪˌdɪzəm
Mahdism
ˈmɑːdɪzəm
nomadism
ˈnəʊmədɪzəm
nudism
ˈnjuːdɪzəm
post-Fordism
ˌpəʊstˈfɔːdɪzəm
Poujadism
ˈpuːʒɑːdɪzəm
sadism
ˈseɪdɪzəm
vanguardism
ˈvænˌɡɑːdɪzəm
warlordism
ˈwɔːˌlɔːdɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ENCYCLOPEDISM

encumbrance
encumbrancer
encurtain
encyclic
encyclical
encyclopaedia
encyclopaedic
encyclopaedically
encyclopaedism
encyclopaedist
encyclopedia
encyclopedian
encyclopedic
encyclopedical
encyclopedically
encyclopedist
encyst
encystation
encysted
encystment

WORDS THAT END LIKE ENCYCLOPEDISM

bastardism
Chassidism
contrabandism
dihybridism
faddism
Girondism
Hasidism
hybridism
invalidism
jihadism
landlordism
Lollardism
Luddism
Methodism
paludism
photoperiodism
propagandism
triadism
tribadism
vagabondism

Synonyms and antonyms of encyclopedism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «encyclopedism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ENCYCLOPEDISM

Find out the translation of encyclopedism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of encyclopedism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «encyclopedism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

百科全书
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

enciclopedismo
570 millions of speakers

English

encyclopedism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

encyclopedism
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

encyclopedism
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

энциклопедизм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

enciclopedismo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

encyclopedism
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

encyclopédisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ensiklopedia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Enzyklopädismus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

encyclopedism
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

encyclopedism
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ensiklopedia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

encyclopedism
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அறிவுக்களஞ்சியவியல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विश्वकोश
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

encyclopedism
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

enciclopedismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

encyclopedism
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

енциклопедизм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

encyclopedism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

encyclopedism
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

encyclopedism
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

encyclopedism
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

encyclopedism
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of encyclopedism

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ENCYCLOPEDISM»

The term «encyclopedism» is used very little and occupies the 156.815 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of encyclopedism
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ENCYCLOPEDISM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «encyclopedism» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «encyclopedism» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about encyclopedism

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENCYCLOPEDISM»

Discover the use of encyclopedism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to encyclopedism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Varieties of Encyclopedism in the Early Roman Empire: ...
The term "encyclopedia"---or rather its neo-Greek and Latin predecessors---was not used as a generic descriptor until the late 15th century CE. Classical scholars nevertheless frequently speak of encyclopedias in Greco-Roman antiquity in ...
Daniel E. Harris-Mccoy, 2011
2
The Rabelais Encyclopedia
66 Encyclopedism atic Prose: Rabelais' Andouilles," SCJ 26.2 (1995): 367-377. Sandra Sider ENCYCLOPEDISM Rabelais refers twice to the "encyclopedia," by which he means the "circle of learning." Thaumaste. the "great scholar" from ...
Elizabeth A. Chesney, 2004
3
The Emancipation of Writing: German Civil Society in the ...
Encyclopedism refers to the vast panoply of natural and artificial objects ( including human behaviors) consuming the interest of a large, complex, and increasingly cosmopolitan civil society. The systematic cataloging and arrangement of these ...
Ian F. McNeely, 2003
4
Pliny's Encyclopedia: The Reception of the Natural History
its importance in accounts of Roman encyclopedism offered by Carmen Codoñer and Robert Fowler, although both give extensive thought to the nuances of the anachronism involved in finding encyclopedismin premodern contexts. 11 It is ...
Aude Doody, 2010
5
New Encyclopedism: H. G. Wells, World Wide Web, Jorge Luis ...
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Books, LLC, Source: Wikipedia, Books Group, 2010
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Building Communication Theories: A Socio/cultural Approach
272) This model for scientific writing is founded on the principle of “incremental encyclopedism,” in which the “function of the article is . . . to add a descriptive statement to an existing body of such statements” (p. 273). While Bazennan's ( 1988) ...
Fred L. Casmir, 2013
7
Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific ...
Aldrovandi, a product of the first wave of travel and exploration, linked curiosity to his encyclopedism, allowing both to define the quest for total knowledge. Kircher, nurtured in the missionary culture of the Jesuit order, expressed his curiosity ...
Paula Findlen, 1996
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Writing and Psychology: Understanding Writing and Its ...
Incremental Encyclopedism In his historical survey, Bazerman shows that, as empirical psychology developed, methods gradually became less important and results more so. In the early years of modern psychology (ca. 1880-1915), authors ...
Douglas Vipond, 1993
9
Bring Out Your Dead: The Past as Revelation
The. World. of. the. Polyhistors: Humanism. and. Encyclopedism. 1713 AND 1715 Johann Burkhard Mencke subjected the scholars of the Holy Roman Empire to a searching examination. They failed it. His two speeches "On the Charlatanry of ...
Anthony Grafton, 2001
10
Symposium on Lexicography XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh ...
It should be noted that the omission of particular terms from OED has been commented on here because OED is so extraordinarily comprehensive: no other major historical dictionary has risen as boldly to the challenge of encyclopedism.
Henrik Gottlieb, Jens Erik Mogensen, Arne Zettersten, 2005

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENCYCLOPEDISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term encyclopedism is used in the context of the following news items.
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In the Age of Information, Specializing to Survive
... “Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain: The Pursuit of Complete Knowledge.” “The sense that there is too much to know has ... «New York Times, Mar 15»
2
History Re-Dressed: Taylor Mac's Queer History of American Pop
The bland faux-encyclopedism of the title belies the radical strategy of the work—an intent, as Mac has put it, to unearth queer agency in the ... «The Nation., Jan 15»
3
There Are 43 Major Classical, New Music, and Opera Events Next …
2/6–8 at 8 Remarkably, Muti finds time in his Schubert encyclopedism for a weekend trip to the composer's Mass in A-Flat and Overture in the ... «Chicagomag.com, Jan 14»
4
Einstein Groupies
He concluded: “I know that Shakespeare was never forgiven for not having been to a university, that his encyclopedism of erudition, gained no ... «New York Times, Aug 12»
5
Knowledge is a property of the network: Mapping Britannica's world …
By the twentieth century, encyclopedism's grand epistemological project had been blackboxed, dumbed down, and commodified for aspirant ... «Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard, Mar 12»
6
Dublin Theatre Festival
... themes of endurance and termination not with his characteristic linguistic economy but with a deliberately excessive encyclopedism. Given a ... «Financial Times, Oct 10»
7
Helen Vendler's new commentary on Emily Dickinson, reviewed by …
Now, some professors are fun to read: Think of the cool Olympian clarity of Northrop Frye, the astonishing encyclopedism of Hugh Kenner, the ... «Washington Post, Sep 10»
8
The Wiki effect
Wikipedia's founder, Jimmy Wales, began his adventure in encyclopedism in 2000 with Nupedia, which he conceived as a free online ... «Boston Globe, Dec 05»

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« EDUCALINGO. Encyclopedism [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/encyclopedism>. Apr 2024 ».
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