pansophism
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of pansophism
1865–70; < Greek pánsoph ( os ) all-wise + -ism. See pan-, sophism
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And here there necessarily entered the governing idea, encyclopædism or pansophism.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Johnson, Rossiter
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