medievalism

English

Alternative forms

• (dated) mediaevalism

Etymology

From medieval +‎ -ism.

Noun

medievalism (countable and uncountable, plural medievalisms)

1. The state of being medieval.
   • 1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:

     It is striking, and quite in character with the man, that he [Sir Walter Scott], who had popularised a romantic notion of the Middle Ages, should be a convinced supporter of the railway, which was effectively to destroy the few traces of medievalism that had survived into the society of his time.

2. (uncountable) The study of the Middle Ages.
3. A custom or belief from the Middle Ages.

Related terms

• medievalist

Translations

the study of the Middle Ages

• Bulgarian: медиевистика f (medievistika)
• Finnish: medievalismi
• Greek: μεσαιωνισμός (el) m (mesaionismós)
• Irish: meánaoiseachas m
• Italian: medievalismo (it) m
• Macedonian: медиевистика f (medievistika)
• Portuguese: medievalismo m

Romanian

Etymology

From medieval +‎ -ism.

Noun

medievalism n (uncountable)

1. medievalism

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	medievalism	medievalismul		medievalisme	medievalismele
genitive-dative	medievalism	medievalismului		medievalisme	medievalismelor
vocative	medievalismule			medievalismelor