academism

See also: Academism

English

Etymology tree

Ancient Greek Ἀκάδημος (Akádēmos)

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh₂

Proto-Hellenic *-íā

Ancient Greek -ία (-ía)

Ancient Greek Ἀκαδήμεια (Akadḗmeia)der.

Classical Latin acadēmī̆ader.

Middle English Achademia

English academy

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mos

Proto-Indo-European *-mós

Ancient Greek -μός (-mós)

Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der.

English -ism

English academism

From academy + -ism.

academism (plural academisms)

Alternative form of academicism [First attested in the mid 18th century.]^[1]
- 1912, Haldane Macfall, A History of Painting: The Modern Genius Part Eight, T. C. and E. C. Jack, page 87:
  For art, academism is death. Academism is the painting in the manner of some one else, whether that other be Greek or Florentine, […]
- 1935, “The Artist and His Means of Expression”, in The Canadian Author, volumes 13-15, Canadian Authors Association, page 11:
  Contemporary Canadian art suffers from new academisms. […] , her reaction is through Keats, Shelley and Byron. Her writing, based on these is perfection itself but still an academism and therefore non-contributive.

^ Brown, Lesley, ed. The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 5th. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

academism n (uncountable)