[f. prec. + -ISM.]
1. a. The principles of the experimental school in philosophy or science; adherence to empirical doctrines. b. Empiricism in practice.
a. 1834. Coleridge, in Rem. (1836), III. 159. A scheme of physics and physiology compounded of Cartesian Mechanics and empiricism (for it was the credulous childhood of experimentalism).
1855. [Miss Cobbe], Ess. Intuitive Morals, 157. But if this principle of general rules cannot be logically grafted on Experimentalism.
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 1. rare.
1842. Fraser’s Mag., XXVI. 562. He has not the genius of experimentalism.
