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experimentalism

[ ik-sper-uh-men-tl-iz-uhm ]

noun

  1. doctrine or practice of relying on experimentation; empiricism.
  2. fondness for experimenting or innovating:

    The psychologists' children were raised in an atmosphere of vigorous experimentalism.



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Other Words From

  • ex·peri·mental·ist noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of experimentalism1

First recorded in 1825–35; experimental + -ism
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Example Sentences

All that You Can't Leave Behind's classic sound closed the door on Pop's excessive experimentalism.

It is connected with his vanity, his voracity for all kinds of praise, his restive experimentalism and even perhaps his envy.

Our passion for experimentalism is dictated by the firm object of using the knowledge we acquire.

However, rising experimentalism has gradually terminated it, its last form appearing in Kant and Hegel.

With experimentalism inevitably came the recognition of hypotheses in observing, collecting, and comparing facts.

Still, the spirit of reckless experimentalism pressed her onward.

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