know-everythingism

noun

The belief that one knows everything and the belief that it is possible to do so.

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Meanings

nounknow-everythingism (uncountable)
  1. informaluncommonuncountableThe belief that one knows everything and the belief that it is possible to do so.

    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
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    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

    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

    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

Origin

From know-everything + -ism.

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