experimentalismn.
/ᵻkˌspɛrᵻˈmɛntl̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ɛkˌspɛrᵻˈmɛntl̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ᵻkˌspɛrᵻˈmɛntəlɪz(ə)m/, /ɛkˌspɛrᵻˈmɛntəlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ɪkˌspɛrəˈmɛn(t)lˌɪzəm/, /ɛkˌspɛrəˈmɛn(t)lˌɪzəm/ 1.
a. The principles of the experimental school in philosophy or science; adherence to empirical doctrines.
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the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > [noun] > empiricism
empiricism1796
experimentalisma1834
experientialism1865
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 159 A scheme of physics and physiology compounded of Cartesian mechanics and empiricism (for it was the credulous childhood of experimentalism).
1855 Ess. Intuitive Mor. 157 If this principle of general rules cannot be logically grafted on experimentalism.
b. Empiricism in practice.
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1860 J. P. Kennedy Rob of Bowl xvi. 183 A ready votary of that credulous experimentalism which has filled the world with victims to medical imposture.
2. Experimental research; the conducting of experiments. Cf. experimentalist n. 1. rare.
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the world > matter > chemistry > experiments > [noun] > action of making
operationc1395
experimentalism1842
1842 Fraser's Mag. 26 562 He has not the genius of experimentalism.
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