| 单词 |
completist |
| 释义 |
completist, n. and a.|kəmˈpliːtɪst|
[f. complete a. + -ist.]
A. n. An obsessive (and often indiscriminate) collector.
1955N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 6 Feb. 25/2 Perhaps the one point of interest here, even for the Holmesian completist, is the effort in the introduction to identify Watson as Doyle's secretary, Maj. Alfred Wood. 1967New Yorker 16 Sept. 38/ .Among the veteran collectors [of science fiction]..was Gerry de la Ree, who identified himself as a forty-three-year-old ‘completist’. ‘That means I buy everything that comes out in the field, and never throw anything away.’ 1987Q Oct. 99/1 This compilation of singles, B-sides and radio sessions..has its usefulness for Colenso completists, but it is difficult to divine any other reason for the LP's existence. 1993Bookseller 7 May 17/2, I list 281 twentieth century authors.., 115 of whom are..regularly producing new offerings which the hopelessly dedicated completists are obliged to add to their earlier rareties [sic].
B. attrib. passing into adj. Intent on completeness or comprehensiveness.
1968.Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 28 Sept. 59/2 The ‘completist attitude’, which has governed several projects, finds the company [sc. Columbia Records] in the position of either having finished or nearing the end of the complete recorded works of Stravinsky, Varèse, Webern, Schönberg, and Copland. 1990Marxism Today June 27 The linked trends in the quality Sundays towards physical bulk and internal diversity is most developed in a market leader like The Sunday Times which seeks to ‘cover’ everything (and every angle) through a ‘completist’ strategy designed to overwhelm both the competition and the reader. |
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