completist
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
English complete
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English completist
From complete + -ist.
Inflected forms:
form: completists
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more completist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most completist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A collector who strives to obtain a complete collection of some type of thing, especially a fan who aims to own or consume the complete output of a particular author, publisher, musician or band.
pos: noun
examples: completist - A dope who tries to have a complete collection in some line. The line may be as broad as having all the prozines ever published, or as narrow as collecting all the Golden Atom tales or all official correspondence during one's incumbency in some office. […]
Ozzie Train, secretary. Ozzie needs little introduction, other than that he is the remaining half of Prime Press, and a genuine completist.
There's no new material on it, just previously issued bits and pieces. That rules out the completist collector. Go figure.
But it’s even harder for me, because… I am a completist. Once I start reading an author’s work, I need to read everything that writer has written. I can’t veer away. I need to check all that author’s books off my mental list. My knowledge of their work must be complete.
But in conversations with people who listen at speeds higher than 2x, it became clear that many podfasters are above all, completists. That is, they have an almost obsessive need to listen to every episode of a podcast that they decide to commit to.
Then a bunch of commercially cynical books […] designed to capitalize on the wise-man status that his death conferred and (in my case successfully) to separate Wallace completists from their money.
gloss: A person who champions any philosophy which focuses on the completeness of something.
pos: noun
examples: A completist philosopher holds that a definite complete body of knowledge exists to be discovered.
gloss: Which attempts to collect something completely.
pos: adj
examples: The completist collector of Conan will want not only all the Conan paperbacks, but also those about Conan or using the name Conan to promote sales of other books by Robert E. Howard.
The company decided to include every scrap of recorded material, no matter how insignificant. Sometime excerpts were only a few seconds long, with the recording cut off by Parker, the recording engineer, or the producer following a false start, technical problem, or other blatant error. No matter—every flub was issued, available for scrutiny. This completist philosophy was subsequently extended to Parker's other two record companies, Dial and Verve, as well as to his live performances, often captured on amateur equipment in informal settings.
Many collectors have a strong interest in particular artists or genres of music, often combining these with a general collection, but taking a more completist approach.
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