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scholasticism

scho·las·ti·cism/skəˈlæstɪˌsɪzəm/noun

scholasticism is a noun meaning “A tradition or school of philosophy, originating in the Middle Ages, that combines classical philosophy with Catholic theology” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-C-H-O-L-A-S-T-I-C-I-S-M and has 4 syllables (scho·las·ti·cism), and it appears about once in every 10 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of scholasticism is scholasticisms.

What does scholasticism mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A tradition or school of philosophy, originating in the Middle Ages, that combines classical philosophy with Catholic theology.

noun

as Scholasticism
  1. 1

    Alternative letter-case form of scholasticism.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce scholasticism?

  • US /skəˈlæstɪˌsɪzəm/

Scholasticism has 4 syllables, split scho·las·ti·cism in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Neøn-scholasticism.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of scholasticism

  • scholasticisms plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is scholasticism?

Scholasticism appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 93,703rd 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).

Scholasticism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense school of philosophy:

LanguageWords
Frenchscolastique
GermanScholastik, Schulwissenschaft
Portugueseescolasticismo
Spanishescolástica, escolasticismo

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 scholasticism come from?

From scholastic + -ism.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).