know-everythingism

English

Etymology

know-everything +‎ -ism

Noun

know-everythingism (uncountable)

1. (informal, uncommon) The belief that one knows everything and the belief that it is possible to do so.
   • 1990, Paul Taylor, See how They Run - Electing the President in an Age of Mediaocracy, page 76:

     For a time, the forces of Know-Everythingism held sway.

   • 2015, Clark Glymour, Thinking Things Through - An Introduction to Philosophical Issues and Achievements, page 240:

     Nothing much is gained if we refute know-nothingism by embracing know-everythingism.

   • 2017, Irving Horowitz, The War Game - Studies of the New Civilian Militarists, page 55:

     And it is precisely to this growth of Executive "know everythingism" that the American Congress has been reacting.

   • 2024, Gregg Barak, Indicting the 45th President - Boss Trump, the GOP, and What We Can Do About the Threat to American Democracy:

     The executive editor of Salon, Andrew O'Hehir, had characterized the repackaging of Republican "know-nothingism" to Republican "know-everythingism" as key to legitimating the messaging of "isolationism, nativism, mythic and and sentimental individualism