antiquarianism
noun
antiquarianism is a noun meaning “Study or love of antiques” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-N-T-I-Q-U-A-R-I-A-N-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 59 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of antiquarianism is antiquarianisms.
What does antiquarianism mean?
noun
- 1
Study or love of antiques.
- 2
Study or love of antiquity.
- 3
Archaism.
We cannot tell if we're facing "nonsense" words that she's coining afresh or obsolete, Old English antiquarianisms from before the standardization of spelling.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of antiquarianism
- antiquarianisms plural
- antiquitarianism
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is antiquarianism?
Antiquarianism appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Antiquarianism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense study or love of antiques:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | antiquarismo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does antiquarianism come from?
From antiquarian + -ism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).