ENCYCLOPAEDISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does encyclopaedism mean? 

• ENCYCLOPAEDISM (noun)
  The noun ENCYCLOPAEDISM has 1 sense:

1. profound scholarly knowledge

  Familiarity information: ENCYCLOPAEDISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENCYCLOPAEDISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Profound scholarly knowledge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

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

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

education (knowledge acquired by learning and instruction)

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

letters (scholarly attainment)

Derivation:

encyclopaedist (a person who compiles information for encyclopedias)