The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Academicism \Ac`a*dem"i*cism\, n. 1. A tenet of the Academic philosophy. [1913 Webster] 2. A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy. [1913 Webster]WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
academicism n 1: orthodoxy of a scholastic variety [syn: scholasticism, academicism, academism]