Meanings
nounfossilism (uncountable)
- uncountableThe 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 […]
- uncountableThe state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions.
- uncountableA policy of reliance on fossil fuels.
Suffice it to say that the recourse to nuclear energy magnifies the problems of fossilism.
1998, David Bell, Roger Keil, Political Ecology: Global and Local, page 41
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