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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The practice of classifying or systematizing.
  • noun Adherence to a system or systems.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Reduction of facts to a system; predominance of system.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The reduction of facts or principles to a system.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The reduction of facts or principles to a system.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the habitual practice of systematization and classification

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Examples

  • Evolutionism and systematism are opposing tendencies which can never be absolutely harmonised one with the other.

    Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880

  • So also he combines the deeper and more abstract religious sentiment of the Teutonic races with the scientific precision and absolute systematism of the

    Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855

  • "I doubt the systematism of the extermination of the Jews and I also doubt the number of deaths, [...] and also whether camps such as Auschwitz were all meant to be extermination camps"

    Little Green Footballs 2008

  • "I doubt the systematism of the extermination of the Jews and I also doubt the number of deaths, [...] and also whether camps such as Auschwitz were all meant to be extermination camps"

    Little Green Footballs 2008

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