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know-everythingism en · NOUN

Etymology

From know-everything + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (informal, uncommon, uncountable) The belief that one knows everything and the belief that it is possible to do so.
    • And it is precisely to this growth of Executive "know everythingism" that the American Congress has been reacting. 2017, Irving Horowitz, The War Game - Studies of the New Civilian Militarists, page 55:
    • For a time, the forces of Know-Everythingism held sway. 1990, Paul Taylor, See how They Run - Electing the President in an Age of Mediaocracy, page 76:
    • The executive editor of Salon, Andrew O'Hehir, had characterized the repackaging of Republican "know-nothingism" to Republican "know-everythingism" as key to legitimating the messaging of "isolationism, nativism, mythic and sentimental individualism 2024, Gregg Barak, Indicting the 45th President - Boss Trump, the GOP, and What We Can Do About the Threat to American Democracy:
    • Nothing much is gained if we refute know-nothingism by embracing know-everythingism. 2015, Clark Glymour, Thinking Things Through - An Introduction to Philosophical Issues and Achievements, page 240: