English edit

Etymology edit

From spectacular +‎ -ism.

Noun edit

spectacularism (countable and uncountable, plural spectacularisms)

  1. The quality of being spectacular.
    • 1988 April 1, Adam Langer, “Show Business”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
      Part of the spectacularism is all the glory the client gets for what we do.
  2. (uncommon) A dramatic act meant to create a spectacle.
    • 1917, Glenn Newton Merry, The Fundamentals of Public Speaking[2]:
      But when he entered the halls of Congress and tried the same spectacularisms upon some of the thoughtful statesmen of the time he met with ridicule.