fossilism

English

Etymology

From fossil +‎ -ism.

Noun

fossilism (uncountable)

1. The science or state of fossils.
   • April 1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, letter to Mr. Cottle

     I would be a tolerable Mathematician, I would thoroughly know Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Optics, and Astronomy, Botany, Metallurgy, Fossilism, Chemistry, Geology, Anatomy, Medicine […]

2. The state of being extremely antiquated in views and opinions.
3. A policy of reliance on fossil fuels.
   • 1998, David Bell, Roger Keil, Political Ecology: Global and Local, page 41:

     Suffice it to say that the recourse to nuclear energy magnifies the problems of fossilism.