Usually means: Strict adherence to traditional rules.
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  1. academicism: Merriam-Webster
  2. academicism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. academicism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  8. academicism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  14. academicism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Academicism)

noun:  (classical studies, sometimes capitalized) The doctrines of Plato's academy; specifically the skeptical doctrines of the later academy stating that nothing can be known; a tenet of the Academic philosophy; state of being Academic.
noun:  (art, literature) Traditional or orthodox formalism; conventionalism.
noun:  Speculative thoughts and attitudes.
noun:  A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.
noun:  (classical studies, sometimes capitalized) The doctrines of Plato's academy; specifically the skeptical doctrines of the later academy stating that nothing can be known; a tenet of the Academic philosophy; state of being Academic.

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