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antiquitarianism

antiquitarianism is the alternative form of antiquarianism.

Meaning of antiquarianism

Noun

antiquarianism (countable and uncountable, plural antiquarianisms)

  1. Study or love of antiques.
  2. Study or love of antiquity.
  3. Archaism.
    • We cannot tell if we're facing "nonsense" words that she's coining afresh or obsolete, Old English antiquarianisms from before the standardization of spelling.Jeffrey Jullich, Review of Bed Hangings by Susan Howe, Electronic Poetry Review #2. Retrieved on October 30, 2006

Origin of antiquitarianism

From antiquitarian + -ism.

Questions about antiquitarianism

What is antiquitarianism the alternative form of?
Antiquitarianism is the alternative form of antiquarianism.

Words near antiquitarianism in the dictionary

  1. antiquises
  2. antiquising
  3. antiquist
  4. antiquists
  5. antiquitarian
  6. antiquitarianism
  7. antiquitarians
  8. antiquitaries
  9. antiquitary
  10. antiquitech
  11. antiquitie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: antiquitarianism (page history and authors); antiquarianism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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