experimentalism
Americannoun
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doctrine or practice of relying on experimentation; empiricism.
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fondness for experimenting or innovating.
The psychologists' children were raised in an atmosphere of vigorous experimentalism.
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Origin of experimentalism
First recorded in 1825–35; experimental + -ism
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Ulysses Jenkins, the pioneering Los Angeles-born video artist whose avant-garde compositions embodied Black experimentalism, has died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2026
Everything from Mexican pop to European experimentalism was strained, boiled, compressed and stretched into addictive instrumental taffy.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
“Do It Again” recalls the energetic, eclectic pop of both performers — like a marriage between BENEE’s 2020 viral hit, “Supalonely,” and Mallrat’s accessible experimentalism, found in the song “Groceries.”
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 28, 2023
In the 1960s and ’70s, Crumb was an oft-discussed figure, his compositions in the forefront of musical experimentalism for his explorations in unorthodox ways of drawing sounds from traditional instruments.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2022
It is connected with his vanity, his voracity for all kinds of praise, his restive experimentalism and even perhaps his envy.
From Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
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