encyclopedism

Other forms of encyclopedism

plural

encyclopedisms·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about encyclopedism

What does encyclopedism mean?

encyclopedism means "profound scholarly knowledge".

How many syllables are in encyclopedism?

encyclopedism has 5 syllables: en-cy-clo-pe-dism. The stress falls on "clo".

What is another word for encyclopedism?

Close synonyms include eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is encyclopedism a common word?

encyclopedism is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.