completist
/kəmˈpliːtɪst/
completist noun: a collector who strives to obtain a complete collection of some type of thing, especially a fan who aims to own or consume the complete output of a particular author, publisher, musician or band. Also the alternative spelling of completest.
Noun
completist (plural completists)
- A collector who strives to obtain a complete collection of some type of thing, especially a fan who aims to own or consume the complete output of a particular author, publisher, musician or band.
- completist - A dope who tries to have a complete collection in some line. The line may be as broad as having all the prozines ever published, or as narrow as collecting all the Golden Atom tales or all official correspondence during one's incumbency in some office. […][1944, John Bristol Speer, Fancyclopedia, Completist
- Ozzie Train, secretary. Ozzie needs little introduction, other than that he is the remaining half of Prime Press, and a genuine completist.1953 Winter, William "Bob" Tucker, “The Philadelphia Story”, in Science Fiction Newsletter, number 28, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2019, page 13
- A person who champions any philosophy which focuses on the completeness of something.
- A completist philosopher holds that a definite complete body of knowledge exists to be discovered.
Adjective
completist (comparative more completist, superlative most completist)
- Which attempts to collect something completely.
- The completist collector of Conan will want not only all the Conan paperbacks, but also those about Conan or using the name Conan to promote sales of other books by Robert E. Howard.1982 Spring, Charlotte Laughlin, “Conan in Paperback”, in Paperback Quarterly, volume 5, number 1, page 21
- The company decided to include every scrap of recorded material, no matter how insignificant. Sometime excerpts were only a few seconds long, with the recording cut off by Parker, the recording engineer, or the producer following a false start, technical problem, or other blatant error. No...2013, Henry Martin, Keith Waters, “Jazz Since the 1980s”, in Essential Jazz, →ISBN, pages 215–216
Also used as
completist is also the alternative spelling of completest.
Examples of completist in a sentence
- That rules out the completist collector.1997 June, Harvey Pekar, “CD Reviews”, in JazzTimes, →ISSN, pages 120–121:
- But it’s even harder for me, because… I am a completist.2008 June 21, Matt Selman, “The Completist”, in Time, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2014:
- But in conversations with people who listen at speeds higher than 2x, it became clear that many podfasters are above all, completists.2017 November 12, Doree Shafrir, “Meet the People Who Listen to Podcasts at Super-Fast Speeds”, in BuzzFeed News:
- Then a bunch of commercially cynical books […] designed to capitalize on the wise-man status that his death conferred and (in my case successfully) to separate Wallace completists from their money.2018 September 15, Julius Taranto, “On Outgrowing David Foster Wallace”, in Los Angeles Review of Books:
Forms of completist
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | completists |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more completist |
| superlative | most completist |
Origin of completist
From complete + -ist.
Questions about completist
- What does completist mean?
- Completist means a collector who strives to obtain a complete collection of some type of thing, especially a fan who aims to own or consume the complete output of a particular author, publisher, musician or band.
- How do you use completist in a sentence?
- That rules out the completist collector.
- What part of speech is completist?
- Completist can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce completist?
- Completist is pronounced /kəmˈpliːtɪst/.
- What is the plural of completist?
- The plural of completist is completists.
Words near completist in the dictionary
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