experimentalism
[ik-sper-uh-men-tl-iz-uh m]
- doctrine or practice of relying on experimentation; empiricism.
- fondness for experimenting or innovating: The psychologists' children were raised in an atmosphere of vigorous experimentalism.
Origin of experimentalism
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Contemporary Examples
As this collection proves, she has gotten stronger and stranger with age—an experimentalist hidden behind a household name.
Paris Review Editor Lorin Stein’s Book Bag: Ann Beattie, Ken Kalfus, and Other Short StoriesLorin Stein
October 2, 2012
Historical Examples
The answer of the experimentalist is, 'Endeavour to make it useful.'
Weissmann's eyes glowed with the quenchless zeal of the experimentalist.
The Tyranny of the DarkHamlin Garland
Faraday said that the experimentalist's answer was, "Endeavour to make it useful."
Michael FaradayJ. H. Gladstone
And further there is the experimentalist himself to be taken into account.
The Philosophy of Natural TheologyWilliam Jackson
I had no wish to be known as a disputant or an experimentalist.
Mohawks, Volume 2 of 3Mary Elizabeth Braddon
experimentalism
- employment of or reliance upon experiments; empiricism
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