fossilism

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English

Etymology

From fossil +‎ -ism.

Noun

fossilism (uncountable)

  1. The science or state of fossils.
    • April 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, letter to Mr. Cottle
      I would be a tolerable Mathematician, I would thoroughly know Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Optics, and Astronomy, Botany, Metallurgy, Fossilism, Chemistry, Geology, Anatomy, Medicine
  2. The state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions.
  3. A policy of reliance on fossil fuels.
    • 1998, David Bell, Roger Keil, Political Ecology: Global and Local, page 41:
      Suffice it to say that the recourse to nuclear energy magnifies the problems of fossilism.