Definitions
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- noun A
collector who strives to obtain acomplete collection of some type of thing. - noun A person who champions any philosophy which somehow includes the
completeness of something; as, a completist philosopher who holds that a definite complete body of knowledge exists to be discovered - adjective Which attempts to collect something
completely ; as, a completist dictionary, a completist collector
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Examples
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And being a serious Sinatra collector myself I prefer to be called a completist, others prefer "nerd", I'm usually one of the louder voices in the chorus of kvetchers.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Tony Sachs 2011
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And being a serious Sinatra collector myself I prefer to be called a completist, others prefer "nerd", I'm usually one of the louder voices in the chorus of kvetchers.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Tony Sachs 2011
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LibraryThing lists these authors as having the most 'completist' fans, ie that those who have one book by the author are likely to have a lot more.
Cambridge Lib Dems... nwhyte 2010
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I keep hearing that writers/publishers must grab the obsessive-compulsive "completist" readership, the sort of "devoted" kind who become obsessed with a series and WILL NOT STOP until he gets every single book in a series ... and wants a series to never end ...
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For "completist" readers of Asimov's robot stories, check out Johnny Pez's Insanely Complete Asimov Fiction List which offers a time line on all of the Robot and Foundation stories.
I, Redux 2004
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For "completist" readers of Asimov's robot stories, check out Johnny Pez's Insanely Complete Asimov Fiction List which offers a time line on all of the Robot and Foundation stories.
July 2004 2004
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Bioware is breaking you of your "completist" video game habit.
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Bioware is breaking you of your "completist" video game habit.
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Bioware is breaking you of your "completist" video game habit.
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Whether it's the obsessive idea of being a "completist" or an interest in trying to further understand the musician's art, searching out those rare recordings is a big part of the fun of being a music fan.
PopMatters Adrien Begrand 2010
john commented on the word completist
From Word Spy: A person who obsessively gathers the complete collection of a particular set of items (such as a musician's recordings or an author's books).
"Hendrix completists, and they are legion, already will have these volumes cataloged with previous versions on quadraphonic vinyl, 8-track and Betamax."
—Bill Lammers, "Latest CD Offers More of Hendrix," The Plain Dealer, July 25, 1999
October 29, 2007