encyclopædism, encyclopedism
(ɛnˌsaɪkləʊˈpiːdɪz(ə)m)
[f. encyclopædia + -ism.]
1. Encyclopædic learning; the possession of the whole range of knowledge.
| 1833 Carlyle, Diderot, Misc. V. 45 This exaggerated laudation of Encyclopedism. 1856 R. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. i. i. 6 Not that he [Gower] sets up for Encyclopædism; on the contrary, he laments..the scantiness of his knowledge. |
2. The doctrines of the Encyclopædists (see encyclopædist 1 b).
| 1835 Fraser's Mag. XI. 102 A time of Tithe Controversy, Encyclopedism, Catholic Rent, Philanthropism, and the Revolution of Three Days! 1840 Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) II, French philosophy, with us, is still synonymous with Encyclopedism. |