Library / English Dictionary

ENCYCLOPEDISM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Profound scholarly knowledge

Synonyms:

encyclopaedism; encyclopedism; eruditeness; erudition; learnedness; learning; scholarship

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("encyclopedism" is a kind of...):

education (knowledge acquired by learning and instruction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "encyclopedism"):

letters (scholarly attainment)

Derivation:

encyclopedist (a person who compiles information for encyclopedias)

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