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Completist - What does it mean?

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is likely misspelled.


has no English definition.

As a noun completist

is a collector who strives to obtain a complete collection of some type of thing.

As an adjective completist

is which attempts to collect something completely.

completist

English

Etymology 1

. Originally from fanspeak, the slang of science fiction fans.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A collector who strives to obtain a complete collection of some type of thing.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1944 , first = John Bristol , last = Speer , authorlink = Jack Speer , title = Fancyclopedia , url = http://www.fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_I/c.html
  • completist
    • , section = Completist , passage = 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. The trouble arises when the collector misses purchasing an issue (or fails to keep a carbon copy, or whatever), or when his ambitions extend back to a time before he started saving the stuff. Then he prowls the 2d-hand magazine shops, writes letters to everybody who mite know where a particular prize is, worries librarians and other public servants, and occasionally makes a marvelous find in some unexpected place and goes around rejoicing. }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1953 , date = Winter , first = William "Bob" , last = Tucker , authorlink = William Tucker , magazine = Science Fiction Newsletter , title = The Philadelphia Story , url = http://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Science_Fiction_Newsletter/SFNews28-13.html , issue = 28 , page = 13 , passage = Ozzie Train, secretary. Ozzie needs little introduction, other than that he is the remaining half of Prime Press, and a genuine completist . }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1997 , date = June , first = Harvey , last = Pekar , magazine = , title = CD Reviews , issn = 0272-572-X , volume = , issue = , pages = 120–121 , passage = There's no new material on it, just previously issued bits and pieces. That rules out the completist collector. Go figure. }}
  • * {{quote-web
    • , year = 2008 , date = June 21 , first = Matt , last = Selman , title = The Completist , work = , url = http://techland.time.com/2008/06/21/the_completist/ , passage = 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. }}

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Which attempts to collect something completely.
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1982 , date = Spring , first = Charlotte , last = Laughlin , authorlink = , magazine = Paperback Quarterly , title = Conan in Paperback , volume = 5 , issue = 1 , page = 21 , passage = 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. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 2013 , title = Essential Jazz , first1 = Henry , last1 = Martin , first2 = Keith , last2 = Waters , chapter = Jazz Since the 1980s , pages = 215–216 , isbn = 9781133964407 , passage = 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. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 2013 , date = November , first = Roy , last = Shuker , authorlink = , title = Popular Music Fandom , section = Record Collecting and Fandom , isbn = 9781134467693 , page = 173 , passage = 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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    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who champions any philosophy which somehow includes the completeness of something; as, a completist philosopher who holds that a definite complete body of knowledge exists to be discovered

    • Etymology 3

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete)
    • English fandom slang

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.